What are the advantages of servlets over CGI?

1.	What are the advantages of servlets over CGI?
Answer» Servlets offer several advantages in comparison with the CGI. Performance is significantly better. Servlets execute within the address space of a Web server. It is not necessary to create a separate process to handle each client request. Servlets are platform-independent because they are written in Java. Java security manager on the server enforces a set of restrictions to protect the resources on a server machine. So servlets are trusted. The full functionality of the Java class libraries is available to a servlet. It can communicate with applets, databases, or other software via the sockets and RMI mechanisms that you have seen already.

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Servlets offer several advantages in comparison with the CGI.

Performance is significantly better.
Servlets execute within the address space of a Web server. It is not necessary to create a separate process to handle each client request.
Servlets are platform-independent because they are written in Java.
Java security manager on the server enforces a set of restrictions to protect the resources on a server machine. So servlets are trusted.
The full functionality of the Java class libraries is available to a servlet. It can communicate with applets, databases, or other software via the sockets and RMI mechanisms that you have seen already.

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