Should have. There is some competency data that gets reloaded, but anything that was in there previous should have been blown out. > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AW: How to access environment variables such as > "QUERY_STRING"? > > > Tom Eugelink wrote: > > > I tried using environment variables because the webserver > that hosts my > > website doesn't feature servlets yet. But I have not > succeeded. It seems > > that by deprecating the getenv() calls and suggesting > property files, SUN > > wants to prevent the usage of environment variables > completely: either type > > it in a property file or specify it as commandline parameters. > > > > As I said: I have not found a solution. > > > > One time (long ago and far away ...) I had to write a Java > app that was accessible > via CGI, somewhat similar to what you're doing. What I ended > up doing was writing > a little C program that constructed a command line to execute > my Java app, > converting all environment variables it found into system > property settings. > > So, for example, if you needed to pass CONTENT_LENGTH and > CONTENT_TYPE, they got > converted by my little C wrapper into a command line like: > > java -DCONTENT_LENGTH=xxx -DCONTENT_TYPE=yyy .... > com.mycompany.MyApplication > > That way, my Java program could access these values with > System.getProperty(). I'm > sure someone savvy with shell scripts would be able to do > this without a program, > but for me C was easier. > > > > > Tom > > > > Craig McClanahan > > PS: Of course, even if Java provided access to environment > variables easily, they > would be of no use to servlets -- environment variables are > global to the > application, where the things servlet cares about are local > to each request. This > only works for CGI because the program is executed > individually for each request. > > ============================================================== > ============= > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: > "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
