JSP Initialization
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> <servlet> <servlet-name>InitializationJSP</servlet-name> <jsp-file>/initialization.jsp</jsp-file> <init-param> <param-name>testParam</param-name> <param-value>hello from web.xml</param-value> </init-param> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>InitializationJSP</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/Initialization</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> //File:initialization.jsp <html> <head> <title>Initialization Parameters and JSP</title> </head> <body> This page has retrieved the following initialization parameter from web.xml: <br> <%= pageContext.getServletConfig().getInitParameter("testParam") %> </body> </html>