Hi chris,
<init-params> specified in a <servlet> tag in the web.xml-<web-app>
context can be made available via the
ServletConfig.getInitParameter("name").
If you put them in <context-param> in the <web-app> they can be made
available
via the ServletContext object (instead of the ServletConfig as above)
--> ServletContext sc = ServletConfig.getServletContext()
sc.getInitParameter("name")
Hth
Peter
chris hutchings wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for the replies, but perhaps I was a bit vague
> in my description.
>
> I have written a couple of example servlets which I
> placed in the \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes folder,
> and these work ok
>
> The next example that I tried involved setting an
> <init-param> parameter in web.xml (for a counter) and
> a servlet that would use this value.
> (all copied out of a book)
>
> Since I was using the \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes
> folder for my servlets, I altered the web.xml in
> /ROOT/WEB-INF.
>
> The servlet executed ok, but the variable was not
> initialised � I printed it out an it was �null�
>
> i.e. the servlets executing from
> \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes can not see the params
> specified in ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml.
>
> hmm, why is this?
>
> i can now get the supplied examples to work,.
>
> thanks chris.
>
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