Why not use a system property, or yet another helper class that encapsulates
how you assign "global" environment variables?
-Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Krüger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 6:53 AM
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> Subject: File I/O deployment question
>
> Hi,
>
> we ran into the following problem: we have tried to get all our j2ee
> aplications independent of the location they are deployed to, even if a
> servlet had to access the local file system (for uploads, getting xsl
> templates etc.) by using the getRealPath method in the servlet api and
> using everything else relative to that. this way we can rsync the entire
> application including all deployment files to different development or
> production servers without a change (only datasources have to be
> configured
> globally in the ejb server).
>
> now we would like to access the file system from a session bean (using the
> approach rickard proposed in the long thread on programming restrictions)
> by encapsulating all file operations in a helper class that's loaded via a
> different classloader than the beans. now, how do I get my servlet
> realpath
> (which is the thing we would like to put everything relative to) to the
> session bean without putting an absolute path into an ejb deployment file?
> I thought about a servlet that autostarts and initializes the helper class
> (lets call it "FileStorer") with the base path and registers an instance
> with JNDI that then the session bean would lookup and use. Sounds kind of
> ugly, doesn't it? Is this possible? Is there a better way that I'm just
> not
> able to see? I have even thought about putting that into the database but
> don't like that either. It is really important to us not having to include
> any absolute path in an ejb or servlet deployment file.
>
> thanks for any advice on that,
>
> robert
>
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