The getServlet() method has been deprecated and can return null in new Servlet
engine implementation.
You might want to make a call to this servlet when the servlet engine starts or
write a method making a call to this servlet if the object is not available in the
servletContext.
Olivier
Neal Kaiser wrote:
> I have a database pooling servlet which I need to load at startup time then
> reference many times later. I've switched from JRun and am trying out
> OrionServer, but can't seem to get it to work. Here's my web-application.xml
> snippet:
>
> -------
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>GlobalConnectionBroker</servlet-name>
>
> <servlet-class>net.anythingcreative.db.GlobalConnectionBroker</servlet-class
>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>configfile</param-name>
>
> <param-value>/usr/local/jdk/ex/creative.cfg</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <load-on-startup></load-on-startup>
> </servlet>
> ------
>
> You'll notice that I'm calling it "GlobalConnectionBroker", and that's the
> name I use to reference it later.
>
> Here's my site.log, you can see that it is loaded:
> ---
> 10/22/99 8:50 AM Started
> 10/22/99 8:50 AM net.anythingcreative.db.GlobalConnectionBroker: init
> 10/22/99 8:50 AM globalBroker is loaded:
> net.anythingcreative.db.DbConnectionBroker@40074b41
> 10/22/99 8:50 AM com.evermind.servlet.XSLServlet: init
> -----
> However, I don't understand why it is saying "globalBroker"? That is just
> a
> variable for a class that GlobalConnectionBroker loads....
>
> Anyway, here is my code that tries to grab a handle to the
> GlobalConnectionBroker, but it always returns null:
>
> Servlet servlet = null;
> try {
> servlet = (GlobalConnectionBroker)
> application.getServlet("GlobalConnectionBroker");
> } catch (Exception e) {
> application.log("Exception: " + e);
> return null;
> }
>
> conServlet = (GlobalConnectionBroker) servlet;
> if (conServlet == null) {
> // it always returns null here.......
> return null;
> }
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
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