* Daniel Fagerstrom:

> Why  does the  DB  driver need  to be  configured  as a  servlet
> init-parameter in the first place,  couldn't it be configured in
> some component instead?

AFAICT  the required  database drivers  need to  be loaded  early.
There  is a  mechanism in  the  CocoonServlet to  load classes  at
initialization.   The  classes  to  load  are  determined  by  the
'load-class' init-param.
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