Re: Cann't read parameter from properties file

[Andy Bailey]

----- Original Message ----- From: Jianhong To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:18 AM Subject: Cann't read parameter from properties file Hi, everyone,   I want to read DSN and so on from properties file to init a database Connection, but I don't know why what I read is null. Here is the file "servlets.properties":   # $Id: servlets.properties,v 1.2 1999/04/02 02:04:01 duncan Exp $ # Define servlets here # <servletname>.code=<servletclass> # <servletname>.initparams=<name=value>,<name=value>   #SimpleServlet.code=SimpleServlet #SimpleServlet.initparams=DSN=iceClassified,UID=sa cookie.code=CookieExample cookie.initparams=foo jsp.code=com.sun.jsp.runtime.JspServlet Does anyone can help me out? Thanks in advance.   Jianhong   Hi Jianhong,   are you setting up your servlet init method correctly?   That is where the servlet init params are delivered to.   it should look something like this   // Servlet class declaration omitted for brevity...   public void init(ServletConfig config) {     super.init(config);     // Now we come to reading your parameters if we can     // You would need to declare placeholders for these parameters as instance variables....         if(getInitParameter("DSN") != null) {         dsn = getInitParameter("DSN");      }      // Repeat for the other parameters }   It also looks like the init params for your servlet are commented out as well so they will be ignored.   Hope that helps   Andy Bailey