Why not do your initialisation in the Servlet.init() method?
p On 22 Sep 2011, at 16:42, Tim Watts <t...@cliftonfarm.org> wrote: > Hello, > > My very basic servlet fails to initialize when trying to read its JNDI > environment entry. The app context name is xbasic. The context.xml is in > xbasic.war's META-INF directory and TomCat (6.0.33) correctly copies it > to ${tomcat.home}/conf/Catalina/localhost/xbasic.xml on first deploy. > Below are the relevant snippets. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong or > is this a bug? > > BTW, I'm running this under openjdk 6. > > > === EXCEPTION ================================================ > javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class > org.cliftonfarm.xbasic.Controller > > org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:291) > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859) > > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:602) > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) > java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) > > root cause > > javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name configName is not bound in this > Context > org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:770) > org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140) > org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781) > org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140) > org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781) > org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:153) > org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.lookup(SelectorContext.java:152) > javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:409) > javax.naming.InitialContext.doLookup(InitialContext.java:282) > org.cliftonfarm.xbasic.Controller.<init>(Controller.java:28) > sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > ... > > === context.xml ================================================ > <Context unpackWAR="false" privileged="false" antiResourceLocking="false" > antiJARLocking="false"> > <Environment > name="configName" > value="${catalina.base}/local/xbasic/config/master.properties" > description="Full path name of the config file." > type="java.lang.String"/> > > </Context> > > === web.xml ================================================ > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" > xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee > http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" > version="2.5"> > <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.cliftonfarm.xbasic.Controller</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <env-entry> > <env-entry-name>configName</env-entry-name> > <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> > </env-entry> > </web-app> > > === Servlet constructor ======================================== > public class Controller extends HttpServlet { > private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; > private String configName; > > /** > * @throws NamingException > * @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet() > */ > public Controller() throws NamingException { > super(); > // get & store JNDI info > configName = InitialContext.doLookup("java:comp/env/configName"); // > line 28 > log(getClass().getName() +": Successfully initialized. configName=[" > +configName +"]"); > } > ... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org