java - ProcessRequest Method

Question

When do ProcessRequest method called?

I am having a hard time why ,what and how the process request is called? why it is called and how it was called by the servlet container.

Answer 1

The servlet has two important methods for handling the client's request:

1. doPost: in general handles requests coming from forms with post method.

2. doGet: handled requests coming from get method.

Now, ProcessRequest method, is any other method that you can use into your code which is not bound (overridden) to anything.

It is called from the above methods to not complicate the code in them thus the requests are handled in it.

so you can use ProcessRequest to handle your request if and only if it's called from one of the methods above.