Hi, I am new to JavaServlets. Learning it through the examples. I am trying to understand how servlet initialization works? I m using the HttpServlet.init(ServletConfig conf) method to read the web.xml file and set few parameters using ServletConfig.getInitParameter ("") method.
As per the documentation, the web.xml file should be in \WEB-INF\ directory. But my source code is not working. I dont get the correct parameter values using ServletConfig.getInitParameter(). Below is the source code. I would really appreciate if someone can help me solve this problem. install_dir = C:\Apache\Tomcar4.1\ examples_dir = install_dir\webapps\ROOT\WEB- INF\classes\HelloWorldExample.java web.xml file location - install_dir\ROOT\WEB-INF\web.xml Thanks - Niketu SourceCode HelloWorldExample.java - ================================= import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class HelloWorldExample extends HttpServlet { private String message; private String defaultmessage = "No Message"; private int repeats = 1; public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); message = config.getInitParameter("message"); if(message == null) message = defaultmessage; try { String repeatstring = config.getInitParameter ("repeats"); repeats = Integer.parseInt(repeatstring); } catch (NumberFormatException ne) { } } public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException { resp.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = resp.getWriter(); String title = "The ShowMessage Servlet"; out.println(ServletUtilities.headWithTitle(title) + "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FDF5E6\">\n" + "<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>" + title + "</H1>"); for(int i=0; i < repeats; i++) out.println(message + "<BR>"); out.println("</BODY></HTML>"); } } SourceCode ServletUtilities.java - ================================ import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class ServletUtilities { public static final String docType = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"- //W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 " + "Transitional//EN\">"; public static String headWithTitle (String title) { return (docType + "\n" + "<HTML>\n" + "<HEAD><TITLE>" + title + "</TITLE></HEAD>\n"); } } Web.xml file - ============ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd"> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name> ShowMsg </servlet-name> <servlet-class> coreservlets.ShowMessage </servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name> message </param-name> <param-value> Shibboleth </param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name> repeats </param-name> <param-value> 5 </param-value> </init-param> </servlet> </web-app> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html