Why should he? He's already got a servlet context. He's got to have a web.xml *anyway*, so why not use it?
Yeah, there are a list of things that could dictate using JNDI, but this isn't necessarily one of them). I mean unless you like having loooong classpaths.... :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Iván Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:02 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: How to read a parameter in web.xml from Action class > > > Why don t you use JNDI ? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:47 AM > Subject: Re: How to read a parameter in web.xml from Action class > > > > Excellent. Thank you Ashutosh. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ashutosh Satyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:40 AM > > Subject: RE: How to read a parameter in web.xml from Action class > > > > > > One more addendum to this. > > In case you want this intialization parameter to be > available to all > > the servlets in your web application, then it should be > defined like > > this in web.xml > > > > <context-param> > > <param-name>myParamName</param-name> > > <param-value>myParamValue</param-value> > > </context-param> > > > > Now you can call getInitParameter("myParamName") on the > ServletContext > > to retrieve it's value. > > > > ServletContext ctxt = servlet.getServletContext(); > > String sname = ctxt.getInitParameter("myParamName"); > > > > OR > > > > String paramValue = > > > request.getSession().getServletContext().getInitParameter("myP > aramValue"); > > > > There is one ServletContext per "web application" per Java Virtual > Machine. > > > > If intialization parmaeter is defined for a specific servlet, then > > it'll > be > > accessible only by this servlet. To retrieve this parameter need to > > call > > getInitParameter() on this servlet. > > > > Hope it clears your doubt. > > - Ashutosh > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ashutosh Satyam > > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:45 AM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: RE: How to read a parameter in web.xml from Action class > > > > > > Try using the below mentioned code to read intialization parameter > > defined in the Web descriptor file. > > > > String sname = servlet.getInitParameter("myParamName"); > > > > OR > > > > ServletConfig config = servlet.getServletConfig(); > > String sname = config.getInitParameter("myParamName"); > > > > 'servlet' is a field defined in Action class, so it can be used in > > your action class. It returns the controller servlet instance (i.e > > instance of the ActionServlet ) to which > > the Action clas is attached to. > > > > Regards, > > Ashutosh > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Frank Burns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:59 AM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: Re: How to read a parameter in web.xml from Action class > > > > > > Sorry, see my CORRECTION below: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Frank Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:19 AM > > Subject: How to read a parameter in web.xml from Action class > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > From an Action class, I want to read a parameter specified in the > web.xml > > > file. I thought I could place it in an <init-param> block, within > > > the <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> element, like this: > > > > > > <init-param> > > > <param-name>myParamName</param-name> > > > <param-value>myParamValue</param-value> > > > </init-param> > > > > > > and then read it within the Action class using: > > > > > > String paramValue = > > > > request.getSession().getServletContext().getInitParameter("myP > aramValue"); > > > > > > CORRECTION: > > > request.getSession().getServletContext().getInitParameter("myParamName > > "); > > > > > > > > But I get null. > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Frank. > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
