init()

• init() is called only once, when the servlet is called for the first time, or when the server is started.
• init() can take a ServletConfig object as a parameter if server information is needed.
• ServletConfig has a method, getInitParameters(), that gets initialization parameters from the server.
• These properties can be found in web.xml.
• If you use this, you must call super.init(ServletConfig) so that the server can continue to use the configuration parameter.
• If ServletConfig is not needed, it can simply be used without arguments.

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 20, 2001