public void init(ServletConfig)

[Bob Moranski]

Hi, I have a question about public void init(SrvletConfig). When is this method invoked? Is it invoked each time a request to the servlet is made?
Thanks.

[William Brogden]

The API guarantees that init will be called before any request is processed. It is the first method called after the servlet container creates a servlet object, and is only called once.
At the other end of the servlet object life-span we have the destroy() method which the servlet container calls before discarding your servlet object.
Bill

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[Bob Moranski]

Thank you Bill.