Re: proper way to access local dir?

[Tim Funk]

If you don't care about where the files are written to, you can use 
"javax.servlet.context.tempdir". See the spec "SRV.3.7.1 Temporary Working 
Directories" for details.

If you need a permanent local directory, I prefer to use a JNDI string lookup 
(http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html) 
to the name of the directory. This way I don't need to change my web.xml on 
my development box vs qna vs production.



-Tim

Daniel wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to access a "file respository" (for read and write of files)
from my servlet.  I was wondering what's the best way to do this in a
container/platform-independent manner?
Is it possible without putting an "init" param in the web.xml that
specifies my repository's directory or hard coding it into my servlet?
I noticed the servlet 2.3 api has ServletContext.getResource(path) but
it doesn't return a path to a local file directory that I'm interested
in. :(


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