I have some initialization parameters for every servlet in my application wich I get from getInitParameter('paramname') method in my servlet.... I am getting these initialization parameters when I define them in WEB-INF/web.xml for each servlet in my application. But this is quite stupidity if I am defining same parameters for all ( around 300 servlets ) in web.xml... Is there any way to define these parameters globally so that that each servlet use the same parameters... regards, Prem.