Sorry, I guess I just read the reply to the original message dealing with
getRealPath("/") and not the original message. I know next to nothing
about dealing with JNI. You may very well be right that there is no
platform independent manner to deal with the JNI Paths.
Jake
At 10:07 PM 7/10/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>There is no platform independent manner to specify JNI code library
>locations.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 10 July, 2002 9:54 PM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: RE: PATH issue
>
>
>It is platform independent, but not guaranteed to work in the case that
>your webapp is running directly out of a .war file. In that case, doing
>sc.getRealPath("/") will return null since the app does not exist on the
>file system.
>
>So, as long as you make sure that your app is deployed from a directory
>directly off the filesystem, you are good as gold. Just make sure to do a
>null check on the result of getRealPath("/") just to make sure.
>
>Jake
>
>At 06:38 PM 7/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >By the way, it's also platform independent ;)
> >
> >Donie
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >From: Donie Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: 10 July 2002 18:32
> >To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> >Subject: RE: PATH issue
> >
> >Hi Kyle
> >
> >Run the following code in your servlet.
> >
> >ServletContext sc = getServletContext();
> >String RootPath = sc.getRealPath("/");
> >
> >This will return the path where the context is. Ie:
> >$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/yourapp
> >This will work in all situations no matter where your app is installed
> >
> >Hope this helps
> >Donie
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >From: Pearsall, Kyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: 10 July 2002 18:32
> >To: Tomcat (E-mail)
> >Subject: PATH issue
> >
> >I have set up Tomcat with an addition to the PATH in startup.bat ("set
> >PATH=..\webapps\TestServlet\dll;%PATH%"). When Tomcat starts from this
> >batch file, the servlet can access files in this directory. However, when
> >Tomcat runs as a service, the servlet can't access the files in this
> >directory. Tomcat produces javax.servlet.ServletException and
> >java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError messages. It seems the NT Tomcat service
> >bypasses startup.bat.
> >How can I set up the NT service to load the PATH statement above? Is this
> >possible? Considering the nature of the product, I can't update the path
> >manually in the Windows environment variables (although this does work).
> >And I would like to keep the files inside the servlet, and not in the
> >Tomcat\bin directory (I tried this and it works as well).
> >What can I do?
> >Thank you in advance for your help.
> >Kyle Pearsall
> >
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