I'm trying to do something as simple as define global constants for my JSP application. In ASP there is a Global.asa file and the closest thing in JSP is of course the web.xml file. I defined a value in my web.xml file and assumed I could retrieve it using the following line:

String test = (String) new InitialContext().getAttribute("html.basepath");

I've done something similar for Datasources that works just fine but for some reason tyring to retrieve a basic String in a similar manner doesn't work.

Can someone please tell me what I am missing?

Thanks.




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