How do I read parameters from a file with Visual Age for Java?

[John Cummins]

I am new to servlets and need to write a servlet that can read certain parameters(database driver, etc.) from a file(i.e. abc.ini). I am using IBM VisualAge for Java 3.5.3 and I think I need to change the .webapp file but I am not sure to what. Any references to check or sample code would be much appreciated.
I tried switching adding this to the end of the default_app.webapp file.
<servlet>
<name>Servlet1</name>
<description>Test Servlet</description>
<code>test.Servlet1</code>
<servlet-path>/</servlet-path>
<init-parameter>
<name>myTest</name>
<value>C:\java\test.ini</value>
</init-parameter>
<autostart>true</autostart>
</servlet>
I wrote a servlet that should just print out the names of all the paramters it gets, so I have both the doPost and doGet methods calling this method:
public void performTask(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
try
{
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
Enumeration keys;
String key = new String();
keys = request.getParameterNames();
while (keys.hasMoreElements())
{
key = (String) keys.nextElement();
out.println(key);
}
out.println("Hello World!");
}
catch(Throwable theException)
{}
}
All that prints out when I switch the code, is "Hello World", with no parameters. I can get parameters from an HTML page to show up, but still cannot get any parameters from a file to work. If anyone can give me any on-line references or sample code, I would be much obliged. Thanks.

[Roy Ben Ami]

hi .
well, in order to get parameters from the web.xml or the webapp to work, it will not pass in as the request.
instead u need to get servletConfig using getServletConfig() and then call the getInitParameters();
hope thats what u wanted.