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Explain the life cycle of a Servlet in JAVA?

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Explain the life cycle of a Servlet in JAVA?
posted Feb 4, 2015 by Shyam

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A servlet life cycle can be defined as the entire process from its creation till the destruction. The following are the paths followed by a servlet

The servlet is initialized by calling the init () method.

The servlet calls service() method to process a client's request.

The servlet is terminated by calling the destroy() method.

Finally, servlet is garbage collected by the garbage collector of the JVM.

the life cycle methods

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answer Feb 6, 2015 by Karthick.c
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