Most Servlet Runners support the ability to pass in Initialization Arguments
into the Servlet at init() time. You can retrieve the arguments with the
ServletConfig.getInitParameter() method.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Schlegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: Running a servlet with arguments?
> Hello list ;-)
>
> does anyone know if it is possible to start a servlet with arguments? As
> I tried out it will not work, but I am not shure if I did something
> wrong.
>
> I need a solution for the following problem:
> a servlet creates a HTML table and the user is allowed to click on the
> cells. Depending on the value in the cell it should start different
> actions (the cells contain different A HREF tags). For these actions it
> is essential to get the value inside the cell. Of course, creating the
> table I could also create all HTML pages linking to every cell. But that
> would be a huge waste.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- Andreas
>
>
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