old school Weblogic 5 ServletContext question

[laredotornado]

Hello,
Someone had written an application in Tomcat and we were moving it
to WebLogic 5, sp 12 for Solaris (I know it's old, we'll upgrade one
day). For now, I was curious, if there is a call like

public final class InitServlet extends HttpServlet^M
{^M
/** Initializes the servlet.^M
* @param config of type ServletConfig^M
* @throws ServletException for any reason^M
*/^M
public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException^M
{^M
super.init(config);^M
^M
//Used to log in the file^M
ServletContext context = getServletContext();^M
//Check if logging is necessary^M
String szLogLevel = context.getInitParameter("system.log");

....

1. Where would we define what the parameter "system.log" should be??

2. When and how would the "init" method of the "InitServlet" class get
called?

Thanks, - Dave

 

[Raymond DeCampo]

Hello,
Someone had written an application in Tomcat and we were moving it
to WebLogic 5, sp 12 for Solaris (I know it's old, we'll upgrade one
day). For now, I was curious, if there is a call like

public final class InitServlet extends HttpServlet^M
{^M
/** Initializes the servlet.^M
* @param config of type ServletConfig^M
* @throws ServletException for any reason^M
*/^M
public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException^M
{^M
super.init(config);^M
^M
//Used to log in the file^M
ServletContext context = getServletContext();^M
//Check if logging is necessary^M
String szLogLevel = context.getInitParameter("system.log");

...

1. Where would we define what the parameter "system.log" should be??

2. When and how would the "init" method of the "InitServlet" class get
called?

You should read over the servlet specification from Sun. It is really
not a difficult read. If you need something more digested, get a book
on servlets (the O'Rielly book is good).

The initialization parameters are defined in the web.xml file for the WAR.

The init() method of a servlet is invoked by the application server
before the servlet handles requests. There is also a destroy() method,
called when the application server has finished with the servlet.

HTH,
Ray

 

[laredotornado]

Thanks for your response, but unfortunately WebLogic 5 predates the
concept of WAR/web.xml files.

Knowing this, do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks, -

 

[Raymond DeCampo]

Thanks for your response, but unfortunately WebLogic 5 predates the
concept of WAR/web.xml files.

I see.

Knowing this, do you have any other suggestions?

I think you are into totally WebLogic-specific territory here if the
above is true. I think you will have to read the WebLogic 5 manual.

Thanks, -

Ray