Servlet initializing parameters does not work

[hatem zanaty <sh...@yahoo.com>]

Hi Guys 

I have :
windows 2000 Server
jdk 1.3 se
Tomcat 4.0.3


I'm trying the init(ServletConfig config) but no Initial values take 
effect from deployment descriptor

I tried the following: 
1. reading a book about configuring and installing tomcat for james 
Goddwill
2. restarting the Tomcat
3. taking a copy of the the web.xml in the conf directory and chainging 
it then restarting the server

the situation :

Tomcat doesn't sense the <init-param> tag in the servlet tag in the 
deployment descriptor
but without any result 

can any one tell me about documents, books Sites , tutorials that can 
help or take a look at the code below  and till me what is wrong

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
<servlet>
  <servlet-name>ShowMsg</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>ch2.ShowMessage</servlet-class>
  
  <init-param>
    <param-name>message</param-name>
    <param-value>shibboleth</param-value>
  </init-param>
  
  <init-param>
    <param-name>repeats</param-name>
    <param-value>5</param-value>
  </init-param>
   </servlet>
</web-app>



Thanx 

Hatem Gamal




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