On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Rick Mann wrote:
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:28:17 -0700
> From: Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Is there a way to get the "docBase" property from within a
> servlet?
>
> Is there a Servlet spec-compliant way to get the webapp's directory's path
> programmatically, from within a servlet?
No.
> Something like calling
> ServletConfig.getInitParameter("docBase"), but something that's standard,
> and that does not require me to specify the path explicitly in a
> configuration file?
>
You are starting from an incorect assumption, that there *is* such a thing
as a portable "directory path" to a web application. It is entirely legal
for a servlet container to run a web application directly from a WAR file
(in which case there is no expanded directory), or by storing its static
resources in some other sort of structure (such as being BLOB objects in a
database).
> TIA,
>
> Rick
>
>
Craig McClanahan
