Atul wrote: > > Why has Java gone for init() in both cases? I can > do the initialization in the constructor. >
You generally need a ServletConfig argument. But javax.servlet.Servlet is an interface, and interfaces can't declare constructors. You could have a convention that servlets had to declare a ctr that took a config argument, but there wouldn't be any compile-time checking. Plus, ancient versions of the JDK had no way for user code to invoke ctr's on dynamically loaded classes. -- Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
