Java Servlets threading model

Question

I was wondering if anybody could explains me the threading model of Java Servlets? As I understood about that, there is only one instance of a servlet can be existed in the serv

Answer 1

If requests were handled serially by servlets, then web applications would be very slow. It's actually the case that servlets need to be thread-safe, because a single instance of a servlet can be responsible for handling multiple requests simultaneously.

Usually a web application container will maintain a thread pool for handling requests, with incoming requests being assigned to threads on an on-demand basis.