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packagejavax.servlet;importjava.io.IOException;/*** Defines methods that all servlets must implement.
*
*
A servlet is a small Java program that runs within a Web server.
* Servlets receive and respond to requests from Web clients,
* usually across HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol.
*
*
To implement this interface, you can write a generic servlet
* that extends
* javax.servlet.GenericServlet
or an HTTP servlet that
* extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
.
*
*
This interface defines methods to initialize a servlet,
* to service requests, and to remove a servlet from the server.
* These are known as life-cycle methods and are called in the
* following sequence:
*
*
The servlet is constructed, then initialized with theinit
method.
*
Any calls from clients to theservice
method are handled.
*
The servlet is taken out of service, then destroyed with the* destroy
method, then garbage collected and finalized.
*
*
*
In addition to the life-cycle methods, this interface
* provides the getServletConfig
method, which the servlet
* can use to get any startup information, and the getServletInfo
* method, which allows the servlet to return basic information about itself,
* such as author, version, and copyright.
*
*@authorVarious
*
*@seeGenericServlet
*@seejavax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
**/
public interfaceServlet {/*** Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the
* servlet is being placed into service.
*
*
The servlet container calls the init
* method exactly once after instantiating the servlet.
* The init
method must complete successfully
* before the servlet can receive any requests.
*
*
The servlet container cannot place the servlet into service
* if the init
method
*
*
Throws aServletException
*
Does not return within a time period defined by the Web server*
*
*
*@paramconfig a ServletConfig
object
* containing the servlet's
* configuration and initialization parameters
*
*@exceptionServletException if an exception has occurred that
* interferes with the servlet's normal
* operation
*
*@seeUnavailableException
*@see#getServletConfig
**/
public void init(ServletConfig config) throwsServletException;/***
* Returns a {@linkServletConfig} object, which contains
* initialization and startup parameters for this servlet.
* The ServletConfig
object returned is the one
* passed to the init
method.
*
*
Implementations of this interface are responsible for storing the
* ServletConfig
object so that this
* method can return it. The {@linkGenericServlet}
* class, which implements this interface, already does this.
*
*@returnthe ServletConfig
object
* that initializes this servlet
*
*@see#init
**/
publicServletConfig getServletConfig();/*** Called by the servlet container to allow the servlet to respond to
* a request.
*
*
This method is only called after the servlet's init()
* method has completed successfully.
*
*
The status code of the response always should be set for a servlet
* that throws or sends an error.
*
*
*
Servlets typically run inside multithreaded servlet containers
* that can handle multiple requests concurrently. Developers must
* be aware to synchronize access to any shared resources such as files,
* network connections, and as well as the servlet's class and instance
* variables.
* More information on multithreaded programming in Java is available in
* the Java tutorial on multi-threaded programming.
*
*
*@paramreq the ServletRequest
object that contains
* the client's request
*
*@paramres the ServletResponse
object that contains
* the servlet's response
*
*@exceptionServletException if an exception occurs that interferes
* with the servlet's normal operation
*
*@exceptionIOException if an input or output exception occurs
**/
public voidservice(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res)throwsServletException, IOException;/*** Returns information about the servlet, such
* as author, version, and copyright.
*
*
The string that this method returns should
* be plain text and not markup of any kind (such as HTML, XML,
* etc.).
*
*@returna String
containing servlet information
**/
publicString getServletInfo();/***
* Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the
* servlet is being taken out of service. This method is
* only called once all threads within the servlet's
* service
method have exited or after a timeout
* period has passed. After the servlet container calls this
* method, it will not call the service
method again
* on this servlet.
*
*
This method gives the servlet an opportunity
* to clean up any resources that are being held (for example, memory,
* file handles, threads) and make sure that any persistent state is
* synchronized with the servlet's current state in memory.
**/
public voiddestroy();
}