krishna kumar jha

• May 1st, 2006

 

initialization of servlet by server on startup prior to getting the request for that servlet is know as preintialization.It is really accomplished by specifying the postive value in load-on-startup tag in the web.xml.

rahulshevkar

 Profile Answers by rahulshevkar 

• May 3rd, 2006

 

when we send any request to the servlet, that request tryies to find servlet 1st. second servlet executing following sequence of method

init()
service()
destroy()

so the 1st time request to servlet, response time is high than 2nd request

so to avoid above problem, we preintialize that servlet into web.xml

so at time of booting server, server load servlet.

this preintialization

so we need not execute init() method again.