"Gerstmair, Anja" wrote:
>
> My bean needs a properties file. The properties file itself contains for
> example the name of the database.
> When I call my bean from outside the JSP pages, I can specify the location
> of the properties file, eg.
> java -Dproppath=c:\...\my.properties ...
> But when I call the bean from within the JSP pages, how can I set the path
> of the properties file.
> I could write it to the JSP directly, but this is not very nice.
> Any ideas?
I suggest you specify it as a context init parameter value in the web.xml
file, and give a reference to the context (the "application" variable in a
JSP page) to the bean with <jsp:setProperty>. Even better may be to change
your bean into a custom action, since a custom action has access to the
context automatically.
See the JSP and Servlet specifications for details.
Hans
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Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com
Author of JavaServer Pages (O'Reilly), http://TheJSPBook.com
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