I have a supplementary question to this. Is there any accepted way to pass parameters to servlets/jsps that may be edited?
I can see that <init-param> & <context-param> do what I want but I need to allow a user to change values of some parameters, save them and the new values would be used subsequently. I don't want to have my code re-writing web.xml or server.xml. I guess I could have a context parameter pointing to an OS file that would contain parameter sets in XML or java property sets. Any other approaches? Oh, that's another question. Any common software out there that can easily parse an XML property file or can I use some of the tomcat libraries? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: RE: Default Servlet Parameters Howdy, You shouldn't be giving other parameters to tomcat's own DefaultServlet. Your own servlets have no limitations on the number of name of variables: you can have as many <init-param> tags in your <servlet> tags as you want. If you want some params common to all the servlets in your web-app, use <context-param> instead, outside your <servlet> tags. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Manchan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 4:44 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Default Servlet Parameters > >*** THE QUESTION *** > >I'd like to load global init parameters for my >servlets on Tomcat, in the manner which Jserv >accomplishes with its |zone.properties| file using the >line |servlets.default.initArgs=myParameter=myValue|. > >*** MY GUESS TO QUESTION *** > >I presume the Tomcat analogue to the above is adding ><init-param> tags to $TOMCAT/conf/web.xml, e.g. > ><servlet> > <servlet-name>default</> > <servlet-class>org.path.to.DefaultServlet</> > <init-param> > <param-name>myParameter</> > <param-value>myValue</> > </init-param> ></servlet> > >*** UNFORTUNATELY *** > >In DefaultServlet.java, it statically loads only five >init-parameters, namely "debug", "input", "listings", >"output", "readonly". I would need to alter Tomcat >code to accept |myParameter|. There must be a better way. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free >http://sbc.yahoo.com > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
