原始碼註釋中文意思為

伺服器呼叫（通過<code>service</code>方法）以允許servlet處理OPTIONS請求。OPTIONS請求確定伺服器支援哪些HTTP方法，並返回適當的頭。例如，如果servlet覆蓋<code>doGet</code>，則此方法返回以下標頭：

<code>Allow: GET, HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS</code>

沒有必要重寫此方法，除非servlet實現新的HTTP方法，而不是HTTP 1.1實現的方法。

    protected void doOptions(HttpServletRequest req,
            HttpServletResponse resp)
        throws ServletException, IOException {

        Method[] methods = getAllDeclaredMethods(this.getClass());

        boolean ALLOW_GET = false;
        boolean ALLOW_HEAD = false;
        boolean ALLOW_POST = false;
        boolean ALLOW_PUT = false;
        boolean ALLOW_DELETE = false;
        boolean ALLOW_TRACE = true;
        boolean ALLOW_OPTIONS = true;

        for (int i=0; i<methods.length; i++) {
            Method m = methods[i];

            if (m.getName().equals("doGet")) {
                ALLOW_GET = true;
                ALLOW_HEAD = true;
            }
            if (m.getName().equals("doPost"))
                ALLOW_POST = true;
            if (m.getName().equals("doPut"))
                ALLOW_PUT = true;
            if (m.getName().equals("doDelete"))
                ALLOW_DELETE = true;
        }

        String allow = null;
        if (ALLOW_GET)
            allow=METHOD_GET;
        if (ALLOW_HEAD)
            if (allow==null) allow=METHOD_HEAD;
            else allow += ", " + METHOD_HEAD;
        if (ALLOW_POST)
            if (allow==null) allow=METHOD_POST;
            else allow += ", " + METHOD_POST;
        if (ALLOW_PUT)
            if (allow==null) allow=METHOD_PUT;
            else allow += ", " + METHOD_PUT;
        if (ALLOW_DELETE)
            if (allow==null) allow=METHOD_DELETE;
            else allow += ", " + METHOD_DELETE;
        if (ALLOW_TRACE)
            if (allow==null) allow=METHOD_TRACE;
            else allow += ", " + METHOD_TRACE;
        if (ALLOW_OPTIONS)
            if (allow==null) allow=METHOD_OPTIONS;
            else allow += ", " + METHOD_OPTIONS;

        resp.setHeader("Allow", allow);
    }