user.dir gives me the directory of the tomcat binary directory. I'm not sure
that will always and forever be the case?

getResourceAsStream() I'm not familiar with. It looks like it's used to load
classes? Loading classes is actually why I was thinking there should be a
way to get access to the directory in question in the first place.

I need the path so that I can write some data to a file there.

TIA,

--
Sean LeBlanc
Software Developer
insightamerica
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
--Henry Spencer

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bohnenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Discovering the webapp path.


You can try getting the java system property user.dir
Why do you need the path?  Can you get away with using
getResourceAsStream(...) instead?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Leblanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:40 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Discovering the webapp path.
> 
> I'm hoping this isn't a FAQ somewhere. I did try googling and
searching
> the
> mailing list. Here goes:
> 
> Is there a way to, at runtime, discover the path that the webapp is
in? I
> can't really rely on the root path being any particular path and doing 
> absolute path, because depending on how tomcat is started, root is in 
> different places.
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> --
> Sean LeBlanc
> Software Developer
> insightamerica
> "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly."
> --Henry Spencer
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