Claude said: > Would it be possible - and how - to pass some initialization parameters to the tools ?
that's an interesting idea. just out of curiousity, what do you need this for? > We would need something like the ViewTool interface, but the VelocityViewServlet considers implicitely that the init method of this > interface is meant to receive the ViewContext. yes, the VelocityViewServlet presently uses the ServletToolboxManager which initializes tools with the ViewContext. One option for you if you need this ability right now, is to extend the VelocityViewServlet to use a ToolboxManager of your own. You would need to override VVS's init(ServletConfig) and createContext(req, res) methods to do this. as for your question... to be honest, i'm guessing that this feature request is not likely to be needed or used by many people, and it could be troublesome to implement in a clean, generalized manner. i can, however, easily imagine other people having similarly uncommon needs for their tools. as such, there is something i considered when i rewrote the toolbox support but didn't get around to implementing. i think perhaps it could be cool to give developers the option of specifying in their web.xml an alternate ToolboxManager for VVS to use. This would not save you from writing your own manager or extending/modifying the ServletToolboxManager, but it would eliminate the need to extend the VVS. thoughts? Nathan Bubna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
