Question on injecting a parameter into the request

Is there a simple way to insert a parameter in the request object? As I process on the server side, i'd like to be able to mimic a request from the client and hate to have to pass values by Attributes if i could seemlessly inject a parameter into the request object. It would save a bit of extra

Application scope, initialization and other curiosities.

I'm curious as to how people are initializing the servletContext (or application object). There are occations where i'd like to have it initialized with certain data before any servlet or jsp sees it. I'd prefer not to have to check in each page, or be forced to have an initialization page.

Just wanted to verify and observe

When i use a request dispatcher, the forward only happens at the server side and not as a typical forward mechanism as sent to the client. - I just wanted to make sure this is correct, so can someone comment. Thanks, Steve

JSP examples Not working

Can someone help with this (i'm sure its a simple fix). I've done fresh jdk 1.2.1 installs on two machines and still get this when I run the JSP files in the example for the reverence JSP environment on suns page. Unhandled error! You might want to consider having an error page to report such