On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Ben Galbraith wrote:
> I spent some time fooling with logs before I realized that if you override:
>
> Servlet.init(ServletConfig config)
>
> you must call this somewhere in your new init() method:
>
> super.init(config)
>
> otherwise the servlet container's logs don't get turned on.
>
>
This is one of the main reasons that the init() method -- without any
parameters -- was added. That way, you don't get caught by this very
common mistake, which usually also leads to NullPointerException problems.
Craig McClanahan
