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Posted by Vaidehi on June 18, 2001 at 9:53 AM

> > Hello friends,
> > I am having a small doubt, why we need init() method to initialize applets & servlets although we can do the same through constructors.

> > thanx
> > saddy
> I am not a java guru but here's my opinion.
> init() like start() and stop() are standardized methods to help browser know how to initialize, start and stop a applet. This way ease the browser life.

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Well in Jdk 1.0 (for which servlets were written) constructors for dynamically loaded classes couldn't accept arguments. So in order to provide a new servlet any information about itself and its environment, a server had to call a servlet's init() method and pass along an object that implements the ServletConfig interface. Also ServletConfig object is available only in init() method and not in a constructor.