Ok,
Here is what I did that works.
In my web.xml I have this entry right inside my web-app parent element:
<web-app version="2.5" blah blah>
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>myvalue</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-value>chris was here</env-entry-value>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
</env-entry>
Then from any class within my JAX-WS web service package structures I
include the following:
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
and access it like so:
Context ctx = (Context) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env");
String myvalue = (String)env.lookup("myvalue");
And this successfully retrieves the value "chris was here" into my variable
for usage (think connection string).
So, this works, seems clean, but is there any reason I should not be doing
it this way?
If no one has any objections, I will set this topic to [RESOLVED] at
COB(Hawaii time) so others can see how I resolved it.
Thanks,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Terence M. Bandoian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:41 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: accessing web.xml
Hi-
Another reasonable approach would be to set system properties either in
the startup script or in the Windows registry if you're running as a
service.
-Terence M. Bandoian
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>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> Chris Richmond wrote:
>>> | I have created a web service using JAX-WS and deployed my .war and
it runs
>>> | fine, but now I want to convert some hard-coded config values to read
>>> values
>>> | from the WEB-INF/web.xml file that was created/deployed.
>>>
>>> Sounds good.
>>>
>>> | I have addes something like the following to my web.xml:
>>> |
>>> | <context-param>
>>> | <description>test context param</description>
>>> | <param-name>testParam</param-name>
>>> | <param-value>my value</param-value>
>>> | </context-param>
>>>
>>> Rest assured... this is a reasonable choice for configuring your webapp.
>>> There is a thread on this list right now where some folks are arguing
>>> over how best to do this (see thread "Best practice? configuration of a
>>> web application"). <context-params> in web.xml is as good as any
method IMO.
>>>
>>> | And I want to access it from any of my classes within my web service.
>>>
>>> Okay. What have you tried? What container objects do you have access to?
>>> Can you get to the request?
>>>
>>> | Perhaps I shouldn't be using <context-param> at all, but some other
>>> type of
>>> | entry in web.xml? In either case, I can't seem to figure out how to
>>> locate
>>> | and use an entry like that from within any class in my JAX-WS web
>>> service.
>>>
>>> You could use <env-entry> instead, and then those settings would be
>>> available via JNDI (which you can get to from anywhere) instead of
>>> through the ServletContext (which you might not have available).
>>>
>>> - -chris
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