a spider is a web crawler.
 it goes through the web and grabs lot's of urls
recursively and performs actions on the html files
that it finds. 

stephen
--- Vikas Gandhi <gandhi@d...> wrote:
> What is a spider application
> 
> Vikas
> 
> stephen sutherland wrote:
> > 
> > do you think it's useful to run a spider
> application as a servlet?
> > 
> > or do you think not ?
> > 
> > stephen
>