> It appears that the init params of the servlet and its
> context are different. Can someone clear up this
> misunderstanding for me?
Yes you are right.

>
> There's also a getInitParameter() method in the
> javax.servlet.ServletContext class. I thought it,
> too, gave access to the <init-param> values.
>
The getInitParameter() from the javax.servlet.ServletContext comes from
<context-param> tags specified in web.xml for the whole application and not
within <servlet> tags.

Hope that clears it up a little.
LD


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