Servlet Container

What is a servlet container?

Servlet container is a container that provides the environment(runtime environment) to execute a Java Enterprise Application.
The client can request only for static webpages from the webserver.
So container used in servlet to help the user to read the web pages as per request/input.

Servlet Container states

There are three different states of servlet container.

1. Standalone
2. In-Process
3. Out-Of-Process

The task of Servlet Container

Servlet container performs several tasks

• Life Cycle of the servlet
• multithreading of servlets
• Robustness
• object pooling
• security
• etc.