RE: System properties

2000-11-17 Thread Stuart Farnan
Rachel, Thanks for that, about the static initializers... The classes that use them are not servlets, merely utility classes are used in the web application and also elsewhere. For instance, a class, or series of classes that deal with database connection pooling, could conceiveably have a

RE: System properties

2000-11-17 Thread Stuart Farnan
OK marvellous, I get all that, TOMCAT_OPTS is not my first choice if it is just basically the command line. On the subject of using a startup servlet to do the work of reading the info and passing it on to the utility classes that need it, this is an option, but would mean writing a servlet for

RE: System properties

2000-11-17 Thread Stuart Farnan
this entry is (the dtd description did not specifically say how to get these values back -- I am assuming System.getProperties())? Does anyone know if more current version of tomcat support it? Will future versions? John Stuart Farnan wrote: OK marvellous, I get all that, TOMCAT_OPTS is not my fi