Description Chris Back 2011-03-14 00:12:23 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

I am moving a large web application project so it runs within Eclipse to make development more streamlined. Unfortunately, when I run the application through Eclipse (I added the necessary server and associated it with the project) I don't seem to have access to any of the init-params I have set up in the web.xml.

The servlet runs, I can output data to the response, etc. The web.xml is obviously being used, the servlet is loaded and mapped to the correct url.

Here is the web.xml from my trivial test case:

<?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>Sample</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  <servlet>
    <description>Test servlet.</description>
    <display-name>TestServlet</display-name>
    <servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.owneriq.Test</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <description>Sample init param.</description>
      <param-name>sample-param</param-name>
      <param-value>foo</param-value>
    </init-param>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

And here is the servlet code (com/owneriq/TestServlet.java):

package com.owneriq;
import java.io.IOException;

public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private String sampleParam;

	public TestServlet() {
		super();
	}

	@Override
	public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
		super.init(config);

		sampleParam = config.getServletContext().getInitParameter(
				"sample-param");
	}

	protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		response.setContentType("text/plain");
		ServletOutputStream output = response.getOutputStream();
		output.println("working");
		output.println("sampleParam:" + sample-param);
		output.close();

	}
}


In the output sampleParam is always null.
This is probably something extremely trivial, but I have been beating my head against the wall trying different versions of Eclipse (3.4 and 3.6) and tomcat.

Thanks,

Chris

Reproducible: Always