Hi, you might use context-parms:
<!-- The context-param element contains the declaration of a web application's servlet context initialization parameters. --> <!ELEMENT context-param (param-name, param-value, description?)> They will be available to all servlets in your web-app. So from the Action-class you get your servlet and ask it for the ServletContext and from there you should be able to get at the context-params. Another way would be to set them in the action-servlet definition. hope this helps Alexander -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to pass initialise parameters to action class Hi, I have an action class that has a variable that I want set from the web.xml file. To prevent the action class from reading the xml file everytime it is accessed I wanted to set the variable once in the action classes init() method. After looking at the action class I see that there is no init() method. Any idea how I can set the value of a variable only once in the action class? Regards Alex
