Hi Martin, This seems like an ideal situation for using Spring dependency injection. Are you familiar with Spring at all?
jk On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:04 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Struts2 and stumbling immediately. > > I want to have an initialization routine in my web app which will connect > to a data base etc. at startup time. This routine needs some parameters (e. > g. the path of a config file to be read). How can I access such external > information? > > With Servlets I would normally implement a ServletContextListener which > would get its information as an init-param from web.xml. > But for Struts2 there is no <servlet> spec where I could put it. > > Writing Struts1 applications I typically utilized a plugin which could read > parameters from struts-config.xml. Maybe this is still possible, but the > Struts2 plugin mechanism seems to be too powerful (or just overwhelming) for > me. > > What is the preferred way? > > Thanks > > Martin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jim Kiley Technical Consultant | Summa [p] 412.258.3346 [m] 412.445.1729 http://www.summa-tech.com
