Connection from web.xml file

[Sam Tilley]

Hi, i am trying to open the connection to my database from a servlet but am having a couple problems.
Initially i simply used

  connection = DriverManager.getConnection( url , username , password ) ;

to get access to my database but now we want to keep it in the xml file. As per the instructions in http://www.horstmann.com/sjsu/tomcat.html i set it up as

            connection = java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection( application.getInitParameter("star.database.uri"),  application.getInitParameter("star.database.username"),       application.getInitParameter("star.database.password") ) ;  

after altering my xml file as required (i am running Tomcat) but i am having problems about finding out what "application" is and why forte will not resolve it.
Tad worried that i am looking it in the face but any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Sam

[Rene Larsen]

'application' is used in JSP and stand for 'ServletContext'.
If you want to use it in a Servlet you should use this:

getServletContext().getInitParameter("...")

/Rene
[ July 10, 2002: Message edited by: Rene Larsen ]