Servlet is a technology to create web application.
- This is an API that provide many class and interface which is use to make web application.
- It is deploy on server to create dynamic website.
- When we send the first request then servlet container get request and execute my business logic.
- Servlets are the Java programs that run on the Java-enabled web server or application server.
There are two type of servlets in java.
generic servlets :- this servlets are protocol-independent and can handle any type of request.
- Every method of generic servlet inheriting to http servlet. Inside this is an abstract method.
- It is implementing serializable and servlet config interface.
- It is in a javax.servlet package.
- Generic servlet is a class.
HTTP servlets :- this servlets are specific to the HTTP protocol and are used to handle HTTP requests and responses.
