what is difference between Servlet and HTTPServlet package

[vijay joseph]

hi,what is difference between GenericServlet and HTTPServlet class?

[ March 02, 2007: Message edited by: vijay joseph ]
[ March 02, 2007: Message edited by: vijay joseph ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Neither of those are packages. "javax.servlet.http" is a package name, and all classes inside of it make up a package.

"Servlet" is an interface, and "HttpServlet" is a class that implements that interface with the help of the GenericServlet class, which it extends.

[Deepak Bala]

Did you mean the difference between a GenericServlet and a HttpServlet ?

[vijay joseph]

sorry friends mistake in my ? .i mean to say difference between HTTPServlet and GenericServlet?thanks in advance

[Ulf Dittmer]

The javadocs of HttpServlet and GenericServlet explicitly mention the differences between the two classes, and they also show a bunch of methods in HttpServlet that are not in GenericServlet (specifically, all the HTTP-related stuff).

The javadocs are generally a good place to start if you want to learn about a particular class.
[ March 02, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]