RE: Check deployment dir programatically
Why dont you setup a JNDI variable for your context which will set the value of base directory ... And then use it in your app... http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html We use JNDI ... :o) -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:16 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Check deployment dir programatically Hello all, How can I programatically check the absolute path to the deployment direcotory (webapps/myApp directory) on the server? request.getSession().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(fileName) works fine to read a file from the direcory, but I see no equivalent to check the root deployment directory. Thanks in advance, Michal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Check deployment dir programatically
This is a solution. I'll do it if there's not a better one. Any other ideas? Michal. -Original Message- From: Raghupathy,Gurumoorthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Why dont you setup a JNDI variable for your context which will set the value of base directory ... And then use it in your app... http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources -howto.html We use JNDI ... :o) -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:16 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Check deployment dir programatically Hello all, How can I programatically check the absolute path to the deployment direcotory (webapps/myApp directory) on the server? request.getSession().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(fileName) works fine to read a file from the direcory, but I see no equivalent to check the root deployment directory. Thanks in advance, Michal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Check deployment dir programatically
Using JNDI variables is considered a good option as it is part of J2EE specs ... And that it is supported by all j2ee app servers and web containers. I cant think of anything else because your context can come from not only base webapps but from any where else Example : manager / admin application in tomcat So better use JNDI variable to the fullpath of the configuration file and then open it :o) This is because if you deploy the app as a .war then you wont be able to do getResourceAsStream(fileName) withing that context. Need more help ? Email me Regards Guru -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:35 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically This is a solution. I'll do it if there's not a better one. Any other ideas? Michal. -Original Message- From: Raghupathy,Gurumoorthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Why dont you setup a JNDI variable for your context which will set the value of base directory ... And then use it in your app... http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources -howto.html We use JNDI ... :o) -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:16 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Check deployment dir programatically Hello all, How can I programatically check the absolute path to the deployment direcotory (webapps/myApp directory) on the server? request.getSession().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(fileName) works fine to read a file from the direcory, but I see no equivalent to check the root deployment directory. Thanks in advance, Michal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Check deployment dir programatically
Thanks again for your help. JNDI solution is tempting. The only problem is that I have many instances of tomcat and I prefer not to hardcode the path into server.xml. That's why I'm still looking for a more flexible (even if less elegant and less portable ) solution. This is because if you deploy the app as a .war then you wont be able to do getResourceAsStream(fileName) withing that context. Not true - it works even if you deploy from a war (at least in tomcat 5.0) . It simply looks for the file in the directory where tomcat unzipped the war. Michal. Need more help ? Email me Regards Guru -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:35 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically This is a solution. I'll do it if there's not a better one. Any other ideas? Michal. -Original Message- From: Raghupathy,Gurumoorthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Why dont you setup a JNDI variable for your context which will set the value of base directory ... And then use it in your app... http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources -howto.html We use JNDI ... :o) -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:16 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Check deployment dir programatically Hello all, How can I programatically check the absolute path to the deployment direcotory (webapps/myApp directory) on the server? request.getSession().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(fileName) works fine to read a file from the direcory, but I see no equivalent to check the root deployment directory. Thanks in advance, Michal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Check deployment dir programatically
Finally, the answer in my case (although probably not universal) is: request.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath(/). Michal -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:24 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Thanks again for your help. JNDI solution is tempting. The only problem is that I have many instances of tomcat and I prefer not to hardcode the path into server.xml. That's why I'm still looking for a more flexible (even if less elegant and less portable ) solution. This is because if you deploy the app as a .war then you wont be able to do getResourceAsStream(fileName) withing that context. Not true - it works even if you deploy from a war (at least in tomcat 5.0) . It simply looks for the file in the directory where tomcat unzipped the war. Michal. Need more help ? Email me Regards Guru -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:35 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically This is a solution. I'll do it if there's not a better one. Any other ideas? Michal. -Original Message- From: Raghupathy,Gurumoorthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Why dont you setup a JNDI variable for your context which will set the value of base directory ... And then use it in your app... http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources -howto.html We use JNDI ... :o) -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:16 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Check deployment dir programatically Hello all, How can I programatically check the absolute path to the deployment direcotory (webapps/myApp directory) on the server? request.getSession().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(fileName) works fine to read a file from the direcory, but I see no equivalent to check the root deployment directory. Thanks in advance, Michal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Check deployment dir programatically
This will map to the ROOT context directory not the webapps I mean WEBAPPS/ROOT -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 11:38 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Finally, the answer in my case (although probably not universal) is: request.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath(/). Michal -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:24 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Thanks again for your help. JNDI solution is tempting. The only problem is that I have many instances of tomcat and I prefer not to hardcode the path into server.xml. That's why I'm still looking for a more flexible (even if less elegant and less portable ) solution. This is because if you deploy the app as a .war then you wont be able to do getResourceAsStream(fileName) withing that context. Not true - it works even if you deploy from a war (at least in tomcat 5.0) . It simply looks for the file in the directory where tomcat unzipped the war. Michal. Need more help ? Email me Regards Guru -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:35 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically This is a solution. I'll do it if there's not a better one. Any other ideas? Michal. -Original Message- From: Raghupathy,Gurumoorthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:27 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Check deployment dir programatically Why dont you setup a JNDI variable for your context which will set the value of base directory ... And then use it in your app... http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources -howto.html We use JNDI ... :o) -Original Message- From: Michal Kwiatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2005 10:16 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Check deployment dir programatically Hello all, How can I programatically check the absolute path to the deployment direcotory (webapps/myApp directory) on the server? request.getSession().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(fileName) works fine to read a file from the direcory, but I see no equivalent to check the root deployment directory. Thanks in advance, Michal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
