Yeah, that's a pretty good way to do it, better than
subclassing ActionServlet. I'm still hoping though
that there is something that is built into Struts that
will make this cleaner than having to create a new
Servlet.
Calvin
--- Tharwat Abdul-Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I don't know if this answers the first part of your
> question. But in your
> third paragraph where you seem to reframe the
> question. What I've done in
> that case was to create servlet who's sole purpose
> is to initialize certain
> parameters (database properties, other static
> properties, etc). The servlet
> loads at startup before the struts servlet. I hope
> this helps. I've been
> doing struts for a whole 2 days now!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Calvin Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 11:01 AM
> Subject: System level properties?
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I apologize in advance if this question has been
> asked
> > before, but I've search the mail archives and docs
> and
> > haven't come up with an answer.
> >
> > Is there a place to specify system-level
> properties in
> > Struts? For example, if the the Model components
> > needed to retrieve environment related properties
> > (remote server host and port, location of
> > initialization files, etc), where would we get
> them
> > from? I saw the 'application' initialization
> > parameter, but that didn't seem to be the same
> context
> > of properties I'm trying to retrieve.
> >
> > Another way to ask the question would be, where is
> the
> > equivalent of overriding init() in HttpServlet to
> > initializing the system? Is subclassing
> ActionServlet
> > the preferred way?
> >
> >
> > Calvin
> >
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