> From the looks of things, it is just the way it is, although I was hoping
> the there would be some way to put stuff in the web.xml file, maybe in the
> servlet tag like:
>
> <system-property>
> <name>myproperty</name>
> <value>42</value>
> </system-property>
>
> Anyone think this is a good idea, or am I talking rubbish?
It's a bad idea. Keep your web-apps encapsulated.
There is two ways to think about a "global" service:
- providing a service to many servlets, seems like a good thing
or
- bleeding out dependencies upon those that don't need them and allowing
access to those that shouldn't be using it. bad things
> PS. static, bad? It is useful! ...
she said and meant _static initializers_ = bad, not static methods, and
members. I concur.
Jim
