In addition to Eugene's answer, both are components and part of the J2EE
Architecture. Servlets are used for the presentation logic of your
application. EJBs are used for handling the business logic of your
application.

As Eugene says, differences are huge, and you should not be statisfied by
those basic answers.

Christophe


> Servlet is a component that realizes request-response paradigm. Most
> common use is as a handler of the HTTP request. EJBs are distributed
> transactional components.
>
> The differences are huge - you'll better see some special literature.
>
> Eugene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Subject: [J2EEPAT-INT] Diff between Servlet and EJB
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>
>> Hi
>>
>> can Any body give the details information about diff. between Servlet
>> and EJB.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bipin
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