>-----Original Message----- >From: Pid * [mailto:p...@pidster.com] >Subject: Re: Filter questions > >On 1 Dec 2010, at 14:35, 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? > >Servlets exist inside the context, not the other way round. > >> 2. If a filter can be mapped to a static resource, what is the >servlet context? > >The app is the context. > > >p >
Thanks, I realized the context part about 20 seconds after I posted and totally forgot about the default servlet. I'll read the spec front to back, as suggested. In the meantime I was trying to understand how/when "servletness" occurs. http://localhost:8080 will load index.html, because of the welcome file, in ROOT but that's not a servlet. Are you saying that the servletcontext here is the Default Servlet mapped to / ?
