What are the benefits of using Servlet over CGI?

Servlet technology was introduced to overcome the limitations of CGI technology. These drawbacks are:

• Servlet technology is better than the CGI in performance with the respect of the timing process. It is possible because Servlet uses the multithreading technology. By this, a new thread has been created at every request which is faster than the loading generating fresh request Object for every request with CGI
• Servlet technology is better than CGI in memory utilization.
• It is efficient to use Servlets as the web application that develops on it can work on a standard web container, for example, JBoss, Tomcat, Glassfish servers.
• It can also run on several operating systems like Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac, Unix etc.
• The very important point of choosing Servlet is that the users don't have to worry about the security, memory leaks, garbage collection etc. container maintain servlet
• Servlets is easy to use as there is nothing to learn except business logic
• Servlets are manageable and the knowledge trajectory is little.