You already saw that your servlet inherits getServletConfig(), so you can call that from any method in your servlet to get a reference to a ServletConfig. Once you have a ServletConfig reference, you can call getInitParameter(). But remember, you can’t call it from your constructor! That’s too early in the servlet’s life... it won’t have its full servletness until the Container calls init().
When the Container initializes a servlet, it makes a unique ServletConfig for the servlet.
The Container “reads” the servlet init parameters from the DD and gives them to the ServletConfig, then passes the ServletConfig to the servlet’s init() method.
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