I am in doubt if both these techniques are GUARANTEED to work because they
involve servlet casting. Unless the point raised for example by Jason
Hunter in his book is false, this casting might fail for quite legitimate
reasons. Am I right? Or does this set/getAttribute() methodology mimicks
an interface implementation, hence by-passing the problem?
While you are at it, pls. be kind enough to comment on the following
(rather academic) question:
Since the specs allow a servlet runner implementation in which several
contexts are created (e.g. for load balancing) how can one get all the
servlets currently loaded? Quite naturally, any servlet can only query on
its own servlet context. Is there a server.getServletContext*s*() missing
or am I missing something?
Thank you,
Kostas
P.S. Would you know of a servlet runner that has elected to implement this
'feature' of various contexts?
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mark Foster wrote:
> I think that example may only work for JSDK >= 2.1
> Using JSDK 2.0 here is what I do...
>
> servletobj s = (servletobj)getServletContext().getServlet("servletobj");
> String foo = s.someMethod().toString();
>
> It's too bad getServlet() was deprecated, because the technique described
> below seems alot more clunky.
> -mdf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernie V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 6:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How can i call a servlet method from another servlet
>
>
> To call a servlet from another servlet, you need to get a reference to the
> servlet that you want to call by using the ServletContext. The servlet that
> you want to call from other servlets must put a reference to itself in the
> servlet context. Use getAttribute() and getAttribute() methods to accomplish
> this. This is usually done in the init() method of the callable servlet:
> public void init(ServletConfig cfg) throws ServletException
> {
> super.init(cfg);
> // Add this servlet to the context
> getServletContext().setAttribute("callableServlet", this);
> }
> Then put this in the calling servlet:
> CallableServlet cs =
> (CallableServlet)getServletContext().getAttribute("callableServlet");
> Now you can use the reference "cs" to invoke methods in the callable
> servlet.
> -ernie
>
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