2 Servlet Contexts in Single Appication?

Hi,

1) Is it possible to put 2 servlet contexts in a single application? If yes how can we use those?

2) Can we use same Servlet class for different servlets in a application?

( Same class can be used for different URL's???)

Thanks,
Rajendra.

1) You can set a context parameters for each servlet in an application (one per servlet)

2) Yes. Different mappings pointing to the same servlet

If we set context parameters to each specific servlet ,
then what is meant by Servlet Context per application???

From the API:

There is one context per "web application" per Java Virtual Machine. (A "web application" is a collection of servlets and content installed under a specific subset of the server's URL namespace such as /catalog and possibly installed via a .war file.)

In the case of a web application marked "distributed" in its deployment descriptor, there will be one context instance for each virtual machine. In this situation, the context cannot be used as a location to share global information (because the information won't be truly global). Use an external resource like a database instead.

The ServletContext object is contained within the ServletConfig object, which the Web server provides the servlet when the servlet is initialized.

Hello Rajendra-

On your way in you missed that JavaRanch has a policy on display names, and yours does not comply with it; specifically, a first name and a last name are required. Please adjust it accordingly, which you can do right here. Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter.

As to your question, what you can set per servlet is, I believe, called servlet parameter, not context parameter. So you can have different servlet parameters for the same servlet class in a web app, but there is only a single context (and its parameters are the same for all servlets).

Is it possible to put 2 servlet contexts in a single application? If yes how can we use those?

Is this not the same as creating two different applications and putting them in the same EAR.

What do you want to achieve by sharing a context, with two applications?

Originally posted by geetu lalchandani:

What do you want to achieve by sharing a context, with two applications?

Geetu, he is asking just reverse, one application and two context... not two application and one context...

Crosspost was made to SCWCD. I'm closing the one in SCWCD but keeping it displayable because of the good answer shared there.

Geetu, he is asking just reverse, one application and two context... not two application and one context...

rathi ji, I meant the same thing. You have two applications, with two different contexts, now when you put them in a single EAR, then, it will be a single application.

Though i tried getting the context parameters, from the applications and you wouldnt get them for both, that means, i couldnt share the contexts.