I have Tomcat 4.0 running as a service on Windows 2000 platform. I am trying to get a servlet to work with init parameters. This is the code: package coreservlets;
import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; /** *Example using servlet initialization. **/ public class ShowMessage extends HttpServlet { private String message; private String defaultMessage = "No Message."; private int repeats = 1; public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { //Always call super.init super.init(config); message = config.getInitParameter("message"); if (message == null) { message = defaultMessage; } try { String repeatString = config.getInitParameter("repeat"); repeats = Integer.parseInt(repeatString); } catch(NumberFormatException nfe) { /**NumberFormatException handles case where repeatString is null *and* case where it is something in an illegal *format. Either way, do nothing in catch, as the previous value (1) for the repeats field will remain valid *because the Intiger.pareseInt throws the exception *before* the value gets assigned to repeats. **/ } } public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); String title = "The ShowMessage Servlet"; out.println(ServletUtilities.headWithTitle(title) + "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FDF5E6\">\n" + "<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>" + title + "</H1>"); for(int i=0; i<=repeats; i++) { out.println(message + "<BR>"); } out.println("</BODY></HTML>"); } } ant this is the web.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name> ShowMsg </servlet-name> <servlet-class> coreservlets.ShowMessage </servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name> message </param-name> <param-value> HelloWorld </param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name> repeats </param-name> <param-value> 10 </param-value> </init-param> </servlet> </web-app> I am suppose to see Hello World repeated 10 times, but I don't so for some reason it is not retrieving the init paramets in the web.xml file? Please can anyone help me with this. Remember I am very new to this. If there is some other page you can re-direct me too I would appreciate it.