On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, chiuming wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: chiuming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: get Servlet Context Name
>
> hi,
> any way I can get a servlet context ( web application
> )'s name with in a servlet? on Servlet API 2.2 (not
> Servlet 2.3)
>
There is no such thing as a servlet context "name" in servlet 2.2. In
servlet 2.3, the context "name" is just a visual prompt for use in
deployment tools -- it doesn't have anything at all to do with request
processing. What are you trying to accomplish by asking for the name?
If you are after the servlet context *path* (i.e. what goes on the front
of the URL), you can get that (in either 2.2 or 2.3) by calling
request.getContextPath(), but this only works when processing a request,
not during the init() method.
> -OR- there is no way to do that?
>
> P.S. I am using tomcat... may I access internal tomcat
> object to achieve that?
>
> thanks
Craig McClanahan
