Re: user.home vs. user.dir

[Stephen McConnell]

Alex Karasulu wrote:

Steve,

I did some research here since it perplexes me ;-).  In short here are some
of my conclusions:
${user.home}, the user's home directory, should be non-null 

${user.dir}, the user's working directory can be null in environments where
shell/dir context is undefined like a Servlet container.
 

still open - (a) we cannot assume that ${user.home} is non-null.  The
are situations where a null value can be returned in a servlet
       

I never knew that user.home with a servlet env would be null - you never
     

stop learning.  I thought it would be the home of the user who started the
JVM.
   

[Karasulu, Alex] 

I think you meant to say user.dir instead of user.home in your last email.

Yep - your correct.

Steve.

BU,
Alex


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