Hi Leo, you can use the terms "servletcontext" and "webapplication" interchangeably.
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/introduction.html See Terminology Best Regards, Martin On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Leo Donahue - PLANDEVX < leodona...@mail.maricopa.gov> wrote: > Servlet Spec 2.5 > SRV.6.2.1 > > "The container provides the filter config as > declared in the filter's deployment descriptor, the reference to the > ServletContext > for the Web application, and the set of initialization parameters.' > > 1. How does Tomcat get a reference to a ServletContext before any > servlet is created? > 2. If a filter can be mapped to a static resource, what is the servlet > context? > > Leo Donahue > >