Re: How to read a file on disk from a servlet

2005-05-27 Thread Will Hartung
> From: "Kenneth Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:49 AM > The ServletContext.getResource depends on a URL string from the > request, as far as I can see, and I could not get it to work quickly, > so I ended up wth this rather silly hack in the servlet init() method: You

Re: How to read a file on disk from a servlet

2005-05-27 Thread Kenneth Jensen
Thanks for both of your advices. JNDI is probably the smart way of doing it, but I am not familiar with it (beyond recognising the name and concept), and right now, the last thing I need is another tech thing to worry about (finishing a student project). :-) The ServletContext.getResource depends

RE: How to read a file on disk from a servlet

2005-05-27 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Kenneth Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > How do I get my servlet to read the keystore file, say if I put it in > $CATAILNA_HOME/webapps//WEB-INF/lib/mykeystore.jks. http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/ServletConte xt.html#getResource(java.lang.String)

Re: How to read a file on disk from a servlet

2005-05-27 Thread Tim Funk
My preference is to rely on a JNDI lookup which will return a String. The string is a URL which you can then open and then read from mykeystore.jks. Then the JNDI lookup config would reside in the declaration. Then its up to the admin to place mykeystore.jks anywhere they wish. -Tim Kenneth