On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Xu, John wrote: > Milt, > Thanks for your response. > The purpose to do this is to find the current directory to open a > property file which is located in a directory that this program is > running.
You may want to do a search on this (either on the web, newsgroups, or this list's archives), because this is a pretty common thing to do. "property file" or "configuration file" would be good search terms. But I think you want to use getResource(), or getResourceAsStream() -- that abstracts the file to a "resource", and you don't have to worry about filesystem directories and paths. Jason Hunter discusses it in the following article (it's a chapter from the book Java Enterprise Best Practices): http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jebp_3/index1.html Also, remember, "this program" is Tomcat, so the "directory that this program is running" is where Tomcat was started from. And that's probably not what you want. > -----Original Message----- > From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Find current directory of java program running > > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Xu, John wrote: > > > Hi, > > For a jsp page or servlet running within Tomcat, what is the good > > way to find the directory that it is running? Can we use > > System.getProperty("user.dir")? > > For the best answer, you should describe why you want to do this > and/or what are you trying to do. Then we can tell you the > best/cleanest way to do it. > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
