GenericServlet

GenericServlet

Implementation of the ‘Servlet’ interface need to be provided by the all servlets.

To facilitate indirect implementation of ‘Servlet’ interface is helper class named javax.servlet.GenericServlet is provided by the ‘sun microsystem’. Details an abstract class which implements servlet interface and defines all it’s methods except service() method. It is used as a super class by the user define servlets.

public class UserServlet extends GenericServlet

{

                        //Service() method is defined

}

Servlet interface and its implementation class GenericServlet provides a generic model (protocol independent) of request processing.