Thank you RS and Jake,
I know there is the possibility of init parameters. Because one
has to edit them manually I would prefer another more dynamic
way of getting the context path. Isn't there another
possibility?
Andreas
>
> Jake, you are correct. Guess I was high on dope, huh :-) But I
> suppose one could still use the environment entry technique for
> "root" contexts. Thanks
>
> RS
>
>
> Hello rsequeira,
>
> I think you are mistaking getServletContext with
> getRealPath("/"). The servlet context object is too important to
> *ever* return null. It is only file system operations that will
> not work when the context is deployed in a .war file.
>
> Jake
>
> Thursday, September 19, 2002, 1:29:21 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> rtc> Place an environment entry in the web.xml. This way you can
> access this rtc> parameter anywhere, anytime. Don't depend on
> getContext or rtc> getServletContext methods. If you had a war
> file, a getServletContext rtc> returns null.
>
> rtc> RS
>
>
> rtc> Hi all,
>
> rtc> I need to know the context path of my web app. If I have a
>
> rtc> HttpServletRequest req, I can get
> rtc> String contextPath = req.getContextPath();
>
> rtc> Now, what can I do within init()? I havn't got a
> rtc> HttpServletRequest there. How do I get the context path?
>
> rtc> Thanks in advance.
>
> rtc> Andreas
>
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