servlet context and servlet container

[rajaraman navaneethan]

hi friends,
i have just started working on servlets.can u people explain me what is servlet context and wat is servlet container.

regards,
raja

[Rajesh Tarigopula]

Hi raj,
ServletContext is a container to hold application lever info.
Pls go through the java specification once.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Originally posted by Pandoo Go:
Hi raj,
ServletContext is a container to hold application lever info.
Pls go through the java specification once.

Why Java specification ?

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.3/javadoc/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html

[Atul Agarwal]

Hi Raja,

ServletContext interface provide a place to hold information that can be share with all the Servlets & JSPs in an application. It intializes at the time of server startup with the values decalred in the Deployoment Descriptor.
Its better to call Web Container instead of Servlet Container, which holds all Servlets and JSPs(later converted to Servlets) instances. Also web container takes care of life cycle of each servlet and provide call back methods for servlets.

Regards,
Atul