ak40732

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• Mar 24th, 2006

 

Yes the servlets service method can be overloaded.The Genericservlet service method can be overloaded to support any type of protocol such as Http,Ftp etc.

Theres are specilized servlet for handling HttpProtocol, we call it HttpServlet.The HttpServlet also provides default implementation for service and doGet and doPost methods.The order in which these methods are called is service(ServletRequest,ServletResponse)-calls-->service(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)--calls--either--doGet(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)/doPost(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res),so one of these metods need to be override,do get the programmer specific funtionaliy.

vijaya

• Apr 2nd, 2006

 

in http servlet class,the abstart service method of generic servlet class implemented along with two more concrete methods i.e;doGet and do Post

when we define servlet class that extends http servlet then we can override either dopost or doget or both but we are not supposed to override the service method

nagan

• Apr 6th, 2006

 

Service() is overridden by all servlets to get customized functionalities.

doGet() handles the get requests of HTML.

doPost() handles the post requests of HTML.

abhijith

• Oct 30th, 2006

 

Yes, we can override service method.   But then we have to give our own implementation to detect which type of method request is using.(i.e GET or POST).  Since we mostly use HTTP as a protocol itz best to extend HTTPServlet and override doGET or doPOST accordingly.

pinkye

• Jan 11th, 2007

 

You should NOT override the service() method.Your job is to override the doGet() and/or doPost methods and let the service () implementation from HTTPServlet worry about calling the right one.

Aqib Ansari

• May 23rd, 2015

 

we can override service method. but we should not override it. why????