Question

I have a gwt appengine app that I am building. It has a web.xml file with some init-params in it. On the client side I am using a java class with an ‘onLoad()’ method. This is a plain ‘EntryPoint’. I would like to read those init-params from the web.xml file when the page is loading. I know I can read them from the server side using getServletConfig().getInitParameter("string") but what I want to do is to read that init-param from the client side. Is there a simple way? Everything I read tells about doing this from a Servlet. Any help would be appretiated.

Answer 1

You are client side and you want information which are server side, so you need to use a technology to do so ,the servlet is the one that will allow you to collect information and send back the result to you client which will be processing it asynchrously.