Re: Help with Java servlet : getServletContext().

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 07:37 -0700, Vidya wrote:
> I am newbie to Java, am trying to get a program working, and I have
> imported the java packages below along with many other imports :
> import javax.servlet.GenericServlet;
> ....
> xsltFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath("xslt/" +
> template));
> if(!xsltFile.canRead()) {
> System.out.println("Error reading XSLT template file '"
> + xsltFile + "'.");
> return 0;
> }
>
> I get the following error, can anyone tell me what the problem is?
>
> com\netod\util\MyClass.java:243: cannot resolve symbol
> symbol : method getServletContext ()
> location: class com.netod.util.MyClass
> xsltFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath("xslt/"
> + template));
>
> thanks for any help
>

Without seeing more of your code, but as a "newbie to Java" I think it's
a fair guess you're after writing a Web servlet, rather than creating a
whole new type of servlet (such as FTP)?

If this is the case, instead of GenericServlet you should extend
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.

I'm not sure where the not found is coming from - perhaps you're
implementing straight Servlet (which doesn't have it) ? If changing to
HTTPServlet doesn't help, post more of your code.

Ross

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