Hi all, Second day on custom tags and I'm having trouble accessing something the docs say I should be able to. I'm using the jakarta dbtags library and attempting to set the database url, driver, userId and password in the web.xml as initParameters as the docs suggest is possible. However I can't locate where what or how these initParameters are set. They don't seem to be normal context-params.. can anybody set me straight? The taglib itself is working fine, I just would rather store these params somewhere central.
I'm using Tomcat 3.3 and the relevant bits of m web.xml currently looks like this: <taglib> <taglib-uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/dbtags</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/dbtags.tld</taglib-location> </taglib> <taglib> <taglib-uri>/dbtags</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/dbtags.jar</taglib-location> </taglib> <context-param> <init-param> <param-name>dbURL</param-name> <param-value>jdbc:twtds:sqlserver://blah/blah</param-value> <description>blah blah </description> </init-param> </context-param> ************************************************************ and the DBtags docs suggest I should be able to do this: ***************************************** Instead of including your database URL, driver name, user id, or password inside your tag body, you may optionally use the "initParameter" attribute: <%-- store your connection info in the web.xml file --%> <sql:connection id="conn1"> <sql:url initParameter="dbURL"/> <sql:driver initParameter="mysqlDriver"/> <sql:userId initParameter="dbUserId"/> <sql:password initParameter="dbPassword"/> </sql:connection> Tref Gare Web Developer MCSD/SCJP eCommerce Group Phone: (03) 9221 4106 Mobile: 0409 556 478 Fax: (03) 9941 4295 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>