Can non-servlet class access web.xml

[chunbo]

Can non-servlet class (helper class) access web.xml recource?

In my project, a servlet invoke another helper class, which needs to extract information from web.xml's context-param.
The helper class extends a class which provides all the db connection information. To make deployment easier, I want to move all the DB connection information to web.xml, but how to make web.xml accessable to a non-servlet class?

Thanks

 

[sedj]

If you put the parameters you need within the <init-param> tags in web.xml, and then load them in the servlet's init() method using the ServletConfig class method getInitParameter(). These can then be made available as and when other classes need them.