You're right. That is why I wrote: 'I don't think you can'... 'maybe
you can'...

I never said impossible ;) ;)

Daniel Gibby

Shapira, Yoav wrote:

>Howdy,
>It wouldn't hurt to read the Context documentation before saying that
>it's impossible ;)
>http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/context.html
>
>You should be able to do what he's trying to do. Doing it in web.xml
>via context-param as you suggest is the spec-compliant, portable, and
>therefore preferred way. I don't know the cause for the original
>poster's problem.
>
>Yoav Shapira
>Millennium ChemInformatics
>
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Daniel Gibby [mailto:dgibby@(protected)]
>>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:07 PM
>>To: Tomcat Users List
>>Subject: Re: Parameters from context.xml not being picked up.
>>
>>I believe the <Parameter line is wrong.
>>
>>It should be in the format of
>>
>> <context-param>
>>   <param-name>SyslogConfig</param-name>
>>   <param-value>/usr/local/etc/rr/sales-syslog.xml</param-value>
>>   <description>File containing the Syslog configuration for this
>>webapp</description>
>> </context-param>
>>And this should be in your web.xml... I don't think that you can put
>>  
>>
>the
>
>
>>parameters into server.xml in the context... maybe you can, but not
>>  
>>
>that
>
>
>>I know about.
>>
>>Daniel Gibby
>>
>>Rick Szeto wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Hi,
>>> I am exploring TC 5.0.18 and found that the <Parameter> are not
>>>    
>>>
>being
>
>
>>>set to the ServletContext.
>>>Here is my context.xml:
>>><Context path="/explorer" docBase="explorer" debug="0"
>>>reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
>>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>>>prefix="explorer_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
>>> <Environment name="maxExemptions" type="java.lang.Integer"
>>>    
>>>
>value="15"/>
>
>
>>> <Parameter name="country" value="Canada" override="false"/>
>>></Context>
>>>
>>>In my InitServlet.init() method, I call:
>>>ServletConfig conf = ..
>>>ServletContext ctx = conf.getServletContext();
>>>String paramValue = ctx.getInitParameter("country");
>>>
>>>paramValue is NULL. Is this a know bug/issue? Or am I not doing
>>>somthing right?
>>>
>>>Rick Szeto
>>>
>>>
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