Nick,
Won't using static methods and variables cause unpredictable results if more
than one thread is running?
Cheers!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nic Ferrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Startup parameters for a servlet
> >>> Mandar Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22-Mar-01 1:45:05 AM >>>
>
> >for example I register a servlet with name
> >Servlet1 I want to send a paramter "xyz" to it
> >I register a same servlet class with another name
> >Servlet2 I want it to take paramter "abc".
> >The purpose of the whole exercise is to initialize
> >the servlet depending its registered name / url,
> >so that I can have some computation based on
> >that.
>
> To do exactly what you want can't be achieved.
>
> However, you can do this in your web.xml:
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>fred1</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>com.Fred.FredServlet</servlet-class>
> <init-param>someparam</init-param>
> <init-value>xyz</init-value>
> </servlet>
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>fred2</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>com.Fred.FredServlet</servlet-class>
> <init-param>someparam</init-param>
> <init-value>abc</init-value>
> </servlet>
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>fred1</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/firstfred/*</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>fred2</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/secondfred/*</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
>
> There will be two copies of the servlet in the container, they will
> be completely different instances but some communication is possible
> using static methods and variables.
>
>
> Nic
>
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