jsp and config.getInitParameter()

[Renee Petris]

Has anybody had success using config.getInitParameter() in jsp pages?

 

I was looking at the web.dtd and noticed that the the servlet element is defined as:

<!ELEMENT servlet (icon?, servlet-name, display-name?, description?, (servlet-class|jsp-file), init-param*, load-on-startup?, security-role-ref*)>

jsp-file is described as:

<!-- The jsp-file element contains the full path to a JSP file within

the web application. -->

Based on how init-param is used for servlets, I assumed that for a jsp page the web.xml would look like:

<web-app>    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>helloworld</servlet-name>
        <jsp-file>d:\apps\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\helloworld\hello.jsp</jsp-file>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>test</param-name>
            <param-value>This Is It</param-value>
        </init-param>
   
    </servlet> </web-app>

Then in my jsp page I use:

<p>The config param test is <%= config.getInitParameter("test") %></p>

The output is

The config param test is null

I've gotten context-param to work great. But I'm curious if anyone knows how to get config.getInitParameter("xx") to work?

Ren�e Petris
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