Advantages of Servlets

• A CGI script spawns a new process every time it is executed, consuming more processing time and server resources; Servlet does not
• CGI scripts are platform-dependent; Servlet, written in Java, is not
• CGI scripts run in processes that are separate from the server's process; Servlet does not
• Servlets can write to server log files and can take advantages of other server capabilities
• Servlets are efficient and scalable because they are handled by separate threads within the Web server process