What is Servlet interface?

What is Servlet interface?

The central abstraction in the Servlet API is the Servlet interface. All servlets implement this interface, either directly or , more commonly by extending a class that implements it.

Note: Most Servlets, however, extend one of the standard implementations of that interface, namely javax.servlet.GenericServlet andjavax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.

Use of Servlet in java?

What are the uses of Servlet?

Typical uses for HTTP Servlets include:
Processing and/or storing data submitted by an HTML form.
Providing dynamic content, e.g. returning the results of a database query to the client.
A Servlet can handle multiple request concurrently and be used to develop high performance system
Managing state information on top of the stateless HTTP, e.g. for an online shopping cart system which manages shopping carts for many concurrent customers and maps every request to the right customer.