mr_brijesh

 Profile Answers by mr_brijesh Questions by mr_brijesh

• Oct 1st, 2005

 

This can not be override.

talk2amitava

 Profile Answers by talk2amitava 

• Nov 3rd, 2005

 

Sorry Brijesh, I beg to differ from you. Over Riding an init() method is very well possible because u might need some extra resource to be initialized when the application is invoked.

javamatrix

 Profile Answers by javamatrix 

• Nov 8th, 2005

 

The init() method of servlet can be overridden. Remember the init() method is overloaded in the GenericServlet class. But the difference lies in which init method are u calling..

if you override the init(ServletConfig config) method, then you will have to call explicitly super.init(config) inside your code...

if you override the init() method, then u dont have to call the super.init() method explicitly..

javamatrix

 Profile Answers by javamatrix 

• Nov 8th, 2005

 

The init() method of servlet can be overridden. Remember the init() method is overloaded in the GenericServlet class. But the difference lies in which init method are u calling..

if you override the init(ServletConfig config) method, then you will have to call explicitly super.init(config) inside your code...

if you override the init() method, then u dont have to call the super.init() method explicitly..

Bhupender Giri

• Nov 9th, 2005

 

The init() method of servlet can be overridden. Remember the init() method is overloaded in the GenericServlet class. But the difference lies in which init method are u calling..

if you override the init(ServletConfig config) method, then you will have to call explicitly super.init(config) inside your code...

vperi

 Profile Answers by vperi 

• Mar 19th, 2009

 

Yes. We can override.

The init(ServletConfig) method is defined in the Servlet
interface. It has been implemented by the GenericServlet class. The
implementation of this init method in the GenericServlet just stores the
ServletConfig object in some private variable so that when you use the method "getServletConfig()",
it gives you the ServletConfig object.

If you override this init(ServletConfig) method but do not call "super.init(config)",
then you need to take care of storing the ServletConfig object in your own
member variable so that you can use it later in your servlet. This means you
cannot retrieve it using "getServletConfig()" method.

As an alternative, you can simply override the "init()" method (without any
parameters). In this case, you need not call "super.init(config)". If in this
init method, you need the ServletConfig object, you can get it via "getServletConfig()"
method. If you define this version of the init method, the GenericServlet's
init(config) method will take care of calling your parameter-less init method.