Is there a way I can get the context name and the servlet path from the init method of a servlet?

Uwe Hanisch

Well, up to now the only way to get your context path is to call getContextPath() on a HttpServletRequest object. But this object you receive only with a HTTP request to your HttpServlet. E.g.:

    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) 
    throws ServletException,IOException {

        String ctxPath = req.getContextPath();
        ...
       
    }

I think it would be usefull, if you can obtain the context path also from the ServletContext. But at the moment I see no chance to get the context path in the HttpServlet init() method.