It is a good explanation.

However it could be a good idea to have an HttpServletContext Interface like 
HttpServletRequest.
Or it could have a standardized attributeName that containers will use to store the 
appli context name in the servlet context.

What a shame for me ! :-)

Thx for your help

Arnaud

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoy� : ven. 14 novembre 2003 12:54
> � : Tomcat Users List
> Objet : Re: How to retreive an application context path from a servlet
> init()
> 
> 
> Back in the day, the servlet spec was meant to be generic 
> that it could 
> server other protocols (FTP, ...,?) other than HTTP. Fast 
> forward to now, 
> http is really the only thing that makes sense with respect 
> to the servlet 
> spec. (There is something called sip, but thats a different story).
> 
> Since the ServletContext is part of javax.servlet, it should not know 
> anything about the Context path. Since that is an HTTP artifact.
> 
> 
> -Tim
> 
> Heritier Arnaud wrote:
> > It's unfortunately what I saw.
> > 
> > I don't understand why in the servlet specs it is not 
> possible to get it in the servlet init ?
> > The container should know the application context when it 
> deploies the servlet.
> > 
> > It's weird.
> > 
> > Arnaud.
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Message d'origine-----
> >>De : Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Envoy� : ven. 14 novembre 2003 02:44
> >>� : Tomcat Users List
> >>Objet : Re: How to retreive an application context path 
> from a servlet
> >>init()
> >>
> >>
> >>AFAIK, it can only be retrieved via the HttpServletRequest
> >>
> >>-Tim
> >>
> 
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