could servlets?

could servlet be made to function from a command prompt as an application

[banguru]

Servlets are intepreted by the Web server. Servlets doesnot contains main method which normal application contains. so it is not possible to do what ur expecting

[rajeev_gupta]

there is 1 way of doing the same

You have to write another class which is having a
main method and trying to coonect the URL of your servlet which in turn execute the servlet and return the desired result throuh outputstream
which U can receive in your application through inputstream.

Try this.

rgards

Rajeev