If the location is for one servlet use a servlet init param otherwise use a servlet context init param. In the latter case you can access it in your servlet by doing (for example):
String value = getServletConfig().getServletContext().
getInitParameter(KEY_NAME);If you need to access an external file you can use an init param as a path to the file.
Then access it using:
standard java io (if file is outside the container)
ServletContext.getResource(...)
ServletContext.getResourceAsStream(...)
HTH,
Jon
tim wrote:
I would like to specify the location of a configuration file to tomcat which indicates the location of parameters used by some of my servlets. What is the best practice for doing this? Particularly I want to be able to get access to the location in any of my servlets.
Thanks
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