OK, I think I see the problem. It did call the servlet but only the init() method. Makes sense. Since there is no request passed, I can't do anything.
Let me restate the question. I'd like to start execution with a servlet that can fire off a jsp after initializing stuff in the the session and hopefully seting variables somewhere that the taglib routines can use. I'm starting to think there is no way to do that. You have to begin with a document so there is a request to pass to the servelet. Thanks, Jim. "Warden, Matt" wrote: > > On Mar 9, Manolis Mavrikis had something to say about Re: How do I start... > > >Jim, > > > > Create a SetupServlet in your servlets package and use something similar as > >the below part of my web.xml > > > > you can even pass some parameters with the param-value > > > > and if I remebmer right you put the load-on-startup tag and it should start > >it on startup and initiliase whatever you want. > > > ><servlet-name>setup</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>wallis.servlets.SetupServlet</servlet-class> > > <init-param> > > <param-name>props</param-name> > > <param-value>/tomcat/webapps/wallis/WEB-INF/MDC.properties</param-value> > > </init-param> > > <load-on-startup/> > > </servlet> > > > > hope this helps > > But he's looking to initialize variables in each user's session. > > I've done nothing with them (not even researched them), btu from the talk > on this list, it looks like either a Valve or Filter is what you want: > > Theres's probably some info here: > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config > > Good luck, > > -- > mattwarden > mattwarden.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
