init() method in servlet

Question

can we change the name of the init() method of servlet? i mean to say the life should be- xyz()-service()-destroy() instead of init()-service()-destroy()

Answer 1

No. init() is a method defined in the servlet base class - if you use a different method name, you won't be overriding an existing method.

You could write an init() method which just calls xyz() of course - and do so in a base class used by all your servlets. It doesn't seem like a great idea though - why would you want to do this in the first place?