RE: Getting context-param in servlet problems...SOLVED

["Marcel van Beurden (ETM)" <Ma...@etm.ericsson.se>]

It's working now! Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Einfeldt [mailto:ralph.einfeldt@uptime-isc.de]
Sent: dinsdag 24 april 2001 9:45
To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
Subject: AW: Getting context-param in servlet problems...ARGH


I guess that your having a wrong JSDK in your classpath.

ServletContext.getInitParameter() has been introduced with JSDK 2.2.
Versions prior to this just had GenricServlet.getInitParmeter()
and ServletConfig..getInitParmeter().

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Marcel van Beurden (ETM)
> [mailto:Marcel.van.Beurden@etm.ericsson.se]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. April 2001 09:21
> An: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Betreff: Getting context-param in servlet problems...ARGH
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm going slightly crazy. I want to get a parameter from the 
> <context-param> section from my web.xml in my servlet. But I 
> can't get it to work.
> 
> I quote from the example web.xml in the Tomcat docs:
> 
> <quote>
>   The values actually assigned to these parameters can be 
> retrieved in a servlet or JSP page by calling:
> 
>     String value = getServletContext().getInitParameter("name");
> 
>   where "name" matches the <param-name> element of one of 
> these initialization parameters.
> </quote>
> 
> When I copy and paste this line of code into my init() method 
> of my servlet I get a compilation error:
> 
> "MyServlet.java": Error #: 300 : method 
> getInitParameter(java.lang.String) not found in interface 
> javax.servlet.ServletContext at line 35, column 40
> 
> I'm really confused now. My web.xml is below. Help !
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcel
> 
> My web.xml:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE web-app
>     PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
>     "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
> 
> <web-app>
>     <context-param>
>         <param-name>jdbcDriverName</param-name>
>         <param-value>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</param-value>
>     </context-param>
>     <context-param>
>         <param-name>jdbcConnectString</param-name>
>         <param-value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/db</param-value>
>     </context-param>
> 
>     <servlet>
>         <servlet-name>
>             servlet1
>         </servlet-name>
>         <servlet-class>
>             Servlet1
>         </servlet-class>
>     </servlet>
> 
>     <servlet>
>         <servlet-name>
>             servlet2
>         </servlet-name>
>         <servlet-class>
>             Servlet2
>         </servlet-class>
>     </servlet>
> 
>     <servlet-mapping>
>         <servlet-name>servlet1</servlet-name>
>         <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
>     </servlet-mapping>
> 
>     <servlet-mapping>
>         <servlet-name>servlet2</servlet-name>
>         <url-pattern>/log/*</url-pattern>
>     </servlet-mapping>
> 
> </web-app>
> 
>