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Make sure that both your initialization Servlet
(that puts the dbPool into context) and your application JSP are in the same
context (i.e. The same Web Application), then (just for ease of use) you might
try pageContext.findAttribute("dbPool"); or
pageContext.getAttributeScope("dbPool"); to find out what scope it's actually
in.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:29
AM
Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] Custom Tag
retrieving ServletContext Objext
Hi Everyone,
This may be a stupid question but I'm just starting to use
custom tags and I'm running into a strange problem. I'm using a DBCP for
a mySQL database and my setup servlet places a handle to the pool in the
ServletContext via the setAttribute() under the name "dbPool."
Now
other servlets can retrieve the pool handle fine and get a connection and do
their business. However my tag, which extends TagSupport can't seem to
find the pool. Initially, I used
getServletContext.getAttribute("dbPool"). Of course, I got a compile
error telling me that there is no such method.
After some reading, it
appeared that what I'm looking for should be available via
the
pageContext.getAttribute("dbPool",pageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
However,
I'm still not getting a handle on the DB Pool. I know there's probably
somethings fairly simple I'm missing here, either syntax or concept.
Could someone give me some insight.
Thanks for your time,
Jason
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