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| <h1>web.xml Visual Editor: Context Parameters</h1> |
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| <p>Use the Context Parameters section in the <code dir="ltr">web.xml</code>Visual Editor to add, remove, and view the web application's context parameters. Context parameters are initialization parameters that are available throughout a web application. You can use them, for example, to provide configuration information to all servlets and JSP pages in a web application. |
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| <p>You can access context parameters in your code using the <code dir="ltr">javax.servlet.ServletContext.getInitParameter()</code> and <code dir="ltr">javax.servlet.ServletContext.getInitParameterNames()</code> methods, as shown in <a href="#CHDDHBHI">Example: Methods to access context parameters in code</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Example: Methods to access context parameters in code</p> |
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| <p>If a company name changes frequently, you can define its value as a context parameter in the <code dir="ltr">web.xml</code> file instead of hard-coding it in all your JSP files and servlets. Then define and declare a listener that reads the value and stores it in the servlet context. Next, define and declare another listener that monitors changes to the name.</p> |
| <p>To declare a context parameter, you must register it in the <code dir="ltr">web.xml</code> file. When you do this, you provide information needed by the server to use the parameter. You tell the server which value should be returned when a context parameter is referred to in the web application.</p> |
| <p>In the Visual Editor, click <b>General</b> at the top of the editor to open the General section, then click the Context Parameters header to open the Context Parameters section.</p> |
| <p>Click <b>Add</b> to define the context parameter element with the following properties:</p> |
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| <td align="left" headers="r2c1-t4 r1c2-t4">Specifies the parameter's name, such as <code dir="ltr">MyCompanyName</code>. |
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| <td align="left" headers="r3c1-t4 r1c2-t4">Specifies the parameter's value, such as <code dir="ltr">Sand For Africa Inc</code>. |
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| <td align="left" headers="r4c1-t4 r1c2-t4">Specifies a description, such as <code dir="ltr">Current name of my company</code>. |
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