On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 15:28 +0530, Keith Hankin wrote:
> I have the following in my web.xml:
> <context-param>
> <param-name>applicationName</param-name>
> <param-value>testApp</param-value>
> </context-param>
>
> My servlet class extends HttpServlet and has the following method:
> public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException
> {
> super.init(config);
> configDir = getInitParameter("configDir");
> applicationName = getInitParameter("applicationName");
> System.out.println("configDir = " + configDir);
> System.out.println("applicationName = " + applicationName);
> jdbcAccess = new AddrJdbcAccess(configDir, applicationName);
> }
>
> Both calls to getInitParameter() return null. What's wrong here?
You are asking for the servlet init parameter, use
getServletContext().getInitParameter() to retrieve the init paramaters for a
context. I found that confusing as well.
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Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:F476EBC2>
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