Posted in: Servlets
Can we use the constructor, instead of init(), to initialize servlet?
Yes. But you will not get the servlet specific things from constructor. The
original reason for init() was that ancient versions of Java couldn t dynamically
invoke constructors with arguments, so there was no way to give the
constructor aServletConfig. That no longer applies, but servlet containers still
will only callyour no-arg constructor. So you won t have access to a
ServletConfig or ServletContext.