On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, karthikeyan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions regarding servlets
>
> 1. Generally it is not advisable to use service method under
> HttpServlet, i know that HttpServlet is specialized to handle GET as
> well as POST methods, besides this any other reason.
[ ... ]
Are you asking why it's strongly suggested that you override doGet()
and/or doPost() and not service()? This has been discussed on this
list pretty well in the past. Basically, the default service()
includes a lot of functionality that it's silly to throw away; that's
not the case for the default doGet() and doPost() -- in fact, all they
do is say "This HTTP method not implemented", so if you don't override
them, your servlet won't be able to handle that type of request.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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