Two classes in the servlet package perform authentication for servlets, AuthenticationServlet and AS400Servlet.
AuthenticationServlet is an HttpServlet implementation that performs basic authentication for servlets. Subclasses of AuthenticationServlet override one or more of the following methods:
The AuthenticationServlet class provides methods that allow you to:
The AS400Servlet class is an abstract subclass of AuthenticationServlet that represents an HTML servlet. You can use a connection pool to share connections and manage the number of connections to the server that a servlet user can have.
The AS400Servlet class provides methods that allow you to:
For more information about servlets in general, see the reference section.