InitParameters

[Alessandro Di Maria]

Hello!

I have some problems to read the init-parameters for my servlet.

I'm usign tomcat  3.2.3, mod-jk. But tested with tomcat standalone on 
port 8080.

Here's my web.xml, located on TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/test/WEB-INF/

<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>remoteServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>ch.hephaistos.web.RemoteServlet</servlet-class>

        <init-param>
            <param-name>server-host</param-name>
            <param-value>localhost</param-value>
        </init-param>       
        <init-param>
            <param-name>server-name</param-name>
            <param-value>ServletServer</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>timeout</param-name>
            <param-value>80000</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
    </servlet> 
</web-app>

if I don't include the <load-on-startup> tag the init-param will never 
be read !

and here's a snippet of my servlet code:

public class RemoteServlet extends HttpServlet implements RRemoteServlet {
   
    private String serverHost="localhost";
   
    private String severName="ServletServer";
   
    private RServletServer server;
   
    private int timeout=60000;
   
    private static int count=0;
  
    private int number;
   
    public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
        super.init(config);
        processes = new Hashtable(5);
       
        // config Log4J
        String prefix =  
this.getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/conf/");
        Log.loadConfig(prefix+"log4j.lcf");
        Log.log.debug("Log4J configuration laoded");
       
        // load configuration
        serverHost  = config.getInitParameter("server-host");
        Log.web.info("Remote Host: "+serverHost);
        severName   = config.getInitParameter("server-name");
        Log.web.info("Server Name: "+severName);
        String timeoutInit = config.getInitParameter("timeout");
        try{
            timeout = Integer.parseInt(timeoutInit);
        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe){
            timeout = 60000;
        }
        Log.web.info("Timeout: "+timeout);
       
       
        // test only use DEBUG-Mode
        count++;
        Log.web.debug("Servlet Instance Nr."+count);
        number=count;
        Log.web.debug("Servlet Nr."+number);
       
        // prepare Servlet for callbacks
        try{
            UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(this);
        } catch(RemoteException re){
            re.printStackTrace();
        }
        this.lookup(serverHost,severName);
        try{
            this.server.register(this);
            Log.rmi.info("Servlet registred to "+severName);
        } catch (RemoteException re){
            Log.rmi.fatal("Register to ["+severName+"] failed!",re);
        }
    }

Here the output I get from Tomcat:

2001-10-01 11:56:46 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /test )
0     DEBUG [main] hephaistos.log init - Log4J configuration laoded
21    INFO  [main] hephaistos.web init - Remote Host: localhost
21    INFO  [main] hephaistos.web init - Server Name: ServletServer
21    INFO  [main] hephaistos.web init - Timeout: 80000
21    DEBUG [main] hephaistos.web init - Servlet Instance Nr.1
21    DEBUG [main] hephaistos.web init - Servlet Nr.1
241   INFO  [main] hephaistos.rmi init - Servlet registred to ServletServer
2001-10-01 11:56:47 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting HttpConnectionHandler 
on 8080
2001-10-01 11:56:47 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting Ajp12ConnectionHandler 
on 8007
9594  DEBUG [Thread-21] hephaistos.log init - Log4J configuration laoded
9594  INFO  [Thread-21] hephaistos.web init - Remote Host: null
9594  INFO  [Thread-21] hephaistos.web init - Server Name: null
9594  INFO  [Thread-21] hephaistos.web init - Timeout: 60000
9594  DEBUG [Thread-21] hephaistos.web init - Servlet Instance Nr.2
9594  DEBUG [Thread-21] hephaistos.web init - Servlet Nr.2
11868 ERROR [Thread-21] hephaistos.rmi lookup - Lookup for [null] failed!
java.rmi.UnknownHostException: Unknown host: null; nested exception is:
        java.net.UnknownHostException: null
java.net.UnknownHostException: null
        at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:571)
         .....

Thread [main] is launched on tomcat's startup, Thread [21] on the first 
request for this servlet.

I don't understand why tomcat has initialized another intance of the 
servlet, he does it for every new request.
If I don't read any init-params tomcat only uses one instance, even if I 
would implement the SingleThreadModel.

What's wrong here?!

Alessandro Di Maria