RE: Accessing environment variables

2001-05-15 Thread William Kaufman 

Yes, there is.  But it's not really a good idea.

What you ought to do instead is to specify these properties in your web.xml
file as a context-param element, like,

webapp
  !-- ... --
  context-param
param-nameTomcatHome/param-name
param-valuec:/tomcat/param-value
  /context-param
/webapp

And specifically, I I'm not sure you even need to know TOMCAT_HOME, when
you've got methods like ServletContext.getRealPath().

-- Bill K.


 -Original Message-
 From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:08 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Accessing environment variables
 
 
 I have a question which is somewhat off topic...
 
 Is there a way to access my environment varibables(ex. 
 TOMCAT_HOME) from my
 servlets running in tomcat?  I just need to somehow return the path to
 TOMCAT_HOME.  Is there some simple method call that can achieve this?
 
 Thanks in advance!
 
 Brandon

RE: Accessing environment variables

2001-05-15 Thread Ross Merritt 

I'm having problems getting servlets to run in Tomcat running behind IIS.
I'm using Tomcat 3.2
My jsps run fine. Can somone send me a sample web.xml file or tell me where
to find one for a simple servlet in it's own app. 

thanks
Ross

-Original Message-
From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Accessing environment variables


I have a question which is somewhat off topic...

Is there a way to access my environment varibables(ex. TOMCAT_HOME) from my
servlets running in tomcat?  I just need to somehow return the path to
TOMCAT_HOME.  Is there some simple method call that can achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

Brandon

RE: Accessing environment variables

2001-05-15 Thread Courtney, James 

Java system properties are different from environment variables as you
probably know.  If you look at your start up script (tomcat.sh) you will see
that the command is executed with a -Dtomcat.home=${TOMCAT_HOME}.  The -D
parameter is how you set environment properties for Java at run time.  If
you use System.getProperty(tomcat.home) you should get what you are
looking for.
-Jamey

-Original Message-
From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Accessing environment variables


I have a question which is somewhat off topic...

Is there a way to access my environment varibables(ex. TOMCAT_HOME) from my
servlets running in tomcat?  I just need to somehow return the path to
TOMCAT_HOME.  Is there some simple method call that can achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

Brandon