This may be a stupid question but I'm just starting to use custom tags and I'm running
into a strange problem. I'm using a DBCP for a mySQL database and my setup servlet
places a handle to the pool in the ServletContext via the setAttribute() under the
name "dbPool."
Now other servlets can retrieve the pool handle fine and get a connection and do their
business. However my tag, which extends TagSupport can't seem to find the pool.
Initially, I used getServletContext.getAttribute("dbPool"). Of course, I got a
compile error telling me that there is no such method.
After some reading, it appeared that what I'm looking for should be available via
the pageContext.getAttribute("dbPool",pageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
However, I'm still not getting a handle on the DB Pool. I know there's probably
somethings fairly simple I'm missing here, either syntax or concept. Could someone
give me some insight. Thanks.
