Servlet spec 2.4 doesn't know context path and initialization time???

Hi everyone,

I have the following problem:

My web application is loading a Servlet on start-up. This servlet
initializes the web-application's environment inside the
init(ServletConfig config) method. Now, at this point in time I'd like
to dynamically get the web-app's context path. Unfortunately the
ServletContext doesn't have the getContextPath() method in servlet
specification 2.4 only in 2.5. And since the init(...) method doesn't
have a HttpServletRequest I have no chance of retrieving the servlet's
context path at initialization time??

Any suggestions on that??

Thanks,

Steffen

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