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[bakiyalakshmi dhanraj]

hi,
i need difference between normal servlet and ActionServlet?

[Joe Ess]

javax.servlet.Servlet
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet

[bakiyalakshmi dhanraj]

i need explanation?

[Merrill Higginson]

javax.servlet.Servlet is an interface defining the basic contract of a servlet and is not specific to the HTTP protocol.

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet is the HTTP-specific implementation of the servlet interface used as the superclass to most any Servlet written for a common web application.

org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet and is the main controller servlet for the Struts 1 Framework. It's just like any other servlet. In a Struts 1 application, this is the only servlet in the application. It then dispatches to other classes set up in the struts-config.xml file to do the work.