I think you want to use getServletContext().getInitParameter("companyName");
There is a difference between a servlet init parameter (defined in web.xml)
and a servlet context init parameter (defined in the context.xml or
server.xml file)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Wingfield
To: Tomcat Users List
Sent: 25/03/2004 10:22
Subject: Re: Getting Context Parameters from server.xml
If you had
String name = config.getInitParameter("companyName");
it might work ;)
HTH,
Jon
Michael Jones wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I'm trying to store some values in my server.xml and then get them
with my
> Servlet.
>
> I followed the instructions at:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/config/context.html
> under the "Context Parameters" section.
>
> In my servlet I got all init params and iterated over the enumeration.
The
> parameter I defined in server.xml did not show up.
>
> Has anyone gotten this feature to work? Am I missing something? Here
> are a few code snippets:
>
> server.xml in the <Context> tag for my webapp
> <Parameter name="companyName" value="MyCompany" override="false"/>
>
> from my servlet
> ServletConfig config = getServletConfig();
> String name = getInitParameter("companyName");
> System.err.println("CompanyName = '" + name + "'");
>
> Enumeration enum = config.getInitParameterNames();
> while(enum.hasMoreElements())
> {
> System.err.println(enum.nextElement());
> }
>
>
> Thanks-
> Michael
>
>
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