Working with the HTTP Servlet

Question

Hello,
I am using Apache Axis to utilize a webservice. I am running this service on the Tomcat localhost:8080. I want to be able to utilize the getServletConfig().getInitParameter() method and I know to do this I must include the HttpServlet library.
My code read as follows:
file_base = new File(getServletConfig().getInitParameter("accounts_db_dir") + "admins\\" + this_user);
This did not work so I then tried to create an instance of HttpServlet and get it that way
HttpServlet s = new HttpServlet();
This did not work either. I am getting "cannot resolve symbol" errors! I am pretty sure that this is a classpath error. Is there a special way to import such a class? I am using:
import javax.servlet.HttpServlet;
And the TOMCAT_COMMON_LIB\servlet.jar IS in my classpath.
Would somebody please help me with this?
Thanks,
James

Answer 1

I've figured out how to get the libraries included, however
String ho = getServletConfig().getInitParameter("accounts_db_dir");
This causes an exception.
I've got the accounts_db_dir declared as an Init-parameter in the tomcat server.xml. . . not in the axis/web-inf/server.xml
when using axis, which server.xml is used?
Thanks
James