Tomcat, Servlets?

Question

Java

Did I understand correctly from the wiki article that a servlet is a java class that is inherited from HttpServlet? In this case, when they say that Tomcat is a container, do they mean that it stores all servlets inside itself and manages their life cycle (Like Spring and its beans) ?

Answer 1

That's right, but not necessarily HttpServlet, you can inherit the Servlet interface or the GenericServlet class.