What are the advantages of the servlets?

[Sheenas]

Hi Guys,

I just started studying advanced java. I have completely understood the CGI concept of the advanced JAVA . But somebody told me that servlets are advanced than CGI. And I don't have idea about the servlets application

What are the advantages of the servlets over the CGI technology?

Your help would be appreciable.

[Katty]

Following are the various advantages of the servlets over CGI:

1. Servlets run very faster than CGI.

2. Servlet are able to handle more than one request at the single time, while CGI are able to handle single request task at a time .

3. Servlets program code is very easier to write as compare with the CGI program code.

4. The properties like scalability, Performance as well as re-usability of servlets is good as compare to CGI technology.

[kelfro]

Servlet is platform independent and it's code is written in the JAVA.

Servlets are more secured than CGI technology and runs in the JVM(Java Virtual machine)

Servlets can run as a threads to improve the performance while CGI not. The overall performance of the servlets are much better than CGI technology.

Memory management of the servlets is very good as compare to to CGI.

[Zecho]

A.Extensibility:

Java Servlet is created using JAVA and which is well-designed ,robust as well as OOP language (object oriented language) and that can be extend in new object. Thats why java servlets take the advantages of being developed in the java programming.

B.Security:

I hope you are aware that Servlet is a component of the server side.An because of this servlets are able to implement the security which is provided by the different web servers.

C.Platform Independence:

Servlets are purely written in the java language , so obviously it is totally platform independent .
Servlets program run on any web server which supports Servlet.