update text file under WEB-INF

[David Cao]

Help!
I need configure my log4j to put log file under WEB-INF\logs(or maybe
docroot\logs; and I want put my editable config properties into
WEB-INF\conf. I know how to load a property file under WEB-INF. But I
need update that file in program as well.
So how can I:
1 Config log4j?
2 How do load and write the property file under WEB-INF?

Thanks
David Cao 
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Subject: Re: Location of application-specific properties files


You must load your properties through some Classloader that is able to
locate your properties file.  For example you can use the class
PropertyResourceBundle for a real properties file or if you want to
access
some own file format, just call the Thread.getCurrentThread
().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(...) function. Then the
WEB-INF/classes folder or some of your application specific .jar files
in
WEB-INF/lib (if any) is the right place for it (and as far as i know, it
is
the only standard way, which assures you to find a specific file on
every
standard J2EE server).

Hope that helps,

Jens Stutte




 

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I am using Tomcat 4.0.3 under WinXP Pro, and I am trying to get my
application to "find" an application-specific properties file.  I am
having
problems trying to determine which directory to put this file in.

Here is the Java code I am using for this class:

//-----------
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

public class ForumProperties extends Properties {

   private static final String separator =
            System.getProperty("file.separator", ".");
   private static final String homeDirectory =
            System.getProperty("user.home",".");
   private static final String DEFAULT_FILENAME = "forum.properties";
   private static ForumProperties globalProps;

   private ForumProperties() {
   }

   private ForumProperties(String fileName) throws Exception {
      this();
      load(new FileInputStream(fileName));
   }

   public static ForumProperties getInstance() throws Exception {
      try {
         if (globalProps == null)
            globalProps = new ForumProperties(DEFAULT_FILENAME);
      } catch (Exception ex) {
         ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
         throw new Exception("Error loading properties file");
      }
      return globalProps;
   }

}
//-----------

I have put the properties file in just about every directory I can think
of
to try and find out where it's supposed to be, but I can't get it to
work.
I can put the file into the "user.home" System property (which turns out
to
be C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator) and have it pick it up, but
I
would prefer to put the file into the directory tree of the application.

Is there an attribute or something in the server.xml or web.xml file I
am
forgetting to set?

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Bob



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