New to servlets2: Parameter initialisation in web.xml

[chris hutchings]

hi, 
the web xml and servlet code are below
-thanks for taking the trouble..

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web
Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd";>

<web-app>

    <!-- Define servlets that are included in the
example application -->
      
    
   <servlet>
       <servlet-name>counter</servlet-name>
       <servlet-class>InitCounter</servlet-class>
                        <init-param>
                        <param-name>initial</param-name>
                        <param-value>1000</param-value>
                        </init-param>
    </servlet>        

</web-app>


import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class InitCounter extends HttpServlet
{
        int count;
        String  initial;        
        
        public void init() throws ServletException
        {
                initial = getInitParameter("initial");
                try
                {
                        count = Integer.parseInt(initial);      
                }
                catch(NumberFormatException e)
                {
                        count = 0;
                }
        }
        
        public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException,
IOException
        {
                res.setContentType("text/plain");
                PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
                
                count++;
                out.println("Since loading, with initialisation");
                out.println("the Servlet has been accessed");   
                out.println(count + " times");
                out.println(initial);           
        }       
}

chris


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