can we write a program by implementing servlet?

[kiran kumar]

Hi,
I mean we can write servlet program by extending GenericServlet and HttpServlet ,is it possible by implementing Servlet ?

[Ben Souther]

Raul, I'm not sure what you're asking.
Could you explain your question in a little more detail?

[Tim Holloway]

Yes. In fact, the whole architecture is designed for general-purpose request/response serving. It's just that the most common implementation of that particular paradigm is HTTP.

What you get from HttpServlet is additional functions that understand the specific needs of an HTTP server. If my memory is any good, among other things, that means that the raw Servlet's service() method is overridden and replaced with on that calls doGet() or doPost() depending on whether the incoming HTTP request is a GET or a POST.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

i think you can do it by implementing all of Servlet's methods

such as service(),getServletInfo(),getServletConfig(),init(config)
destroy()