Servlet Life Cycle
As stated earlier, servlets are deployed within a servlet container, which in turn is hosted by a Web server. The particular capabilities and level of compliance of the Web server determines which version of the servlet specification you need to be working with.
The basic behavior of a servlet involves a request-response type model derived from the way the HTTP works; thus, the inherent applicability as a Web component. This behavior is illustrated via a statechart diagram in Figure 10-1.
Figure 10-1. Servlet life cycle
Servlets are built as Java classes that extend one of two basic servlet implementation classes: HttpServlet ...
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