Re: [OT] how do i get context-param

2004-11-24 Thread Struts User
I had the same feeling that servlet spec. should be more specific when I just started working with J2EE:) But, my experience tells me that a specification tells you "What" you need to have in a servlet container and not "How" to implement a servlet container. If I want to learn servlet programmin

Re: [OT] how do i get context-param

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Weber
Good point. I guess the J2EE tutorial would be the place for stuff like that (I was trying to only speak of "official" documentation). Erik Craig McClanahan wrote: It's important to remember that the Servlet Specification target audience isn't application developers -- it's people that are implem

Re: [OT] how do i get context-param

2004-11-24 Thread Craig McClanahan
It's important to remember that the Servlet Specification target audience isn't application developers -- it's people that are implementing servlet containers (such as the group that creates Tomcat). It is about defining requirements, not illustrating use cases. For application level questions, a

Re: [OT] how do i get context-param

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Weber
Ack, here I go being a writing critic and leave in a glaring typo . . . Erik Weber wrote: Well, I have to criticize my own advice. I just read over the Servlet 2.4 spec. It doesn't explain this well at all, in my opinion. It still uses the same old, nearly meaningless, obscure language like "used

Re: [OT] how do i get context-param

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Weber
Well, I have to criticize my own advice. I just read over the Servlet 2.4 spec. It doesn't explain this well at all, in my opinion. It still uses the same old, nearly meaningless, obscure language like "used by the Servlet container to communicate with a Servlet", and stuff like that, which doe