I'm not real familiar with struts (yet), but I see no reason why you couldn't put some standalone static code in your action class to read the parameter. The static code will get executed once when the action class is instantiated and should do what you're looking for.
In other non-struts applications I've used a servlet that is set to be loaded upon startup that reads all my start-up parameters and then stores the values in the servlet application context so every class that has access to the application context can read them. Hope this helps, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Alex Colic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:31 AM To: Struts 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 LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately.
