3 messages in com.mysql.lists.javaRe: Servlet Local Path
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Edilmar Alves09 Jun 2000 07:21 
Tim Endres09 Jun 2000 10:02 
Tom Myers09 Jun 2000 11:53 
Subject:Re: Servlet Local Path
From:Tom Myers (tom.@postoffice.worldnet.att.net)
Date:06/09/2000 11:53:54 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.java

Hi,

Edilmar Alves <edil@intersite.com.br> had said

My servlet app with Linux+Apache+JServ+JBuilder3+MySQL needs to open text files into a subdirectory from servlet dir.

Today, I use the "ugly" strategy: the code has explicitly all the PATH to access the file.

and Tim Endres wrote:

You can do this by using System.getResoure(), which will let you get the file from the JAR even (or any place on the CLASSPATH...

It's a bit off-topic, maybe, and Tim's solution will work fine, but you may prefer to use the actual servlet dir rather than the classpath; if I'm running a "DomSearch" servlet invoked as

http://localhost:8080/examples/DomSearch?a=b&c=d&soForth=soOn

and the initParameter "configFile" is "/servlets/data/dsStamps.xml", then getServletContext().getRealPath(getInitParameter("configFile"))

has the value, in this case, of

C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\examples\servlets\data\dsStamps.xml

because C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\examples is the starting directory, the "DocBase", for servlets running in the "examples" webapp. That's specifically Tomcat 3.1, but it works the same on JRun and I don't think you'll have any problem figuring it out elsewhere.

Tom Myers