Eeek, I'm not sure where to start =)
> I have to set some <init-param> parameters in web.xml
> that are used in one of the examples init() method.
> Unfortunately the initialisation is not working
> properly and i get a 'null' when I print out the
> variable.
Are you aware that web.xml only applies to the application it's part of? For example,
/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml settings won't have any impact on the execution of the /examples
application.
> Also I have added a context path to server.xml, so
> that I can use my own named directories.
> But this does not seem to work either.
I'm not sure I understand... You explicitly setup a Context in server.xml?
> I can run servlets in the
> \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes folder, but I can not
> get the servlets in the examples directory to work.
And the servlets executing from there should be able to see your params specified in
ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml. Can they?
- r
