GenericServlet is abstract?

[ritesh srivastav]

why GenricServlet decleared abstract?

[Greg Charles]

Well, what does abstract mean? GenericServlet and its child HttpServlet are meant to provide a framework for the concrete servlets that you write to do something interesting. They're not meant to be instantiated themselves, and if you could instantiate one of them, it wouldn't do anything for you.

[Bear Bibeault]

Here's a better question you should answer: why should it not be abstract?

[devasis majhi]

I think this the way Servlet API has been designed to force the developer to implement the service() of GenricServlet to process client request or response. If it would have not been an abstract class I don't see any harm in it. Those who want to customize their service method they could have overridden it and do what they want to do.

[Ulf Dittmer]

See https://coderanch.com/how-to/java/ServletsFaq#overriding-service for why overriding the service method is generally not what you should do, and https://coderanch.com/how-to/java/ServletsFaq#otherProtocols for why GenericServlet and HttpServlet exist as separate classes to begin with.