Hello Shapira, Thanks very much for the reply.
Well, as you say, the context path cannot be retrieved without issuing a servelt request, is it? I too understand your point of hacking into server.xml. So, I am dropped this idea. I am totally dependent on the context path to be able to initialize my datastore library, there by having a fully qualified url in the initialization phase. I guess, I have to change my code and build my url whenever there is a request for getting data from the datastore. Sridhar. -----Original Message----- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:57 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Accessing the Context tag attributes of server.xml ... Howdy, This point comes up every couple of weeks. Searching the archives will reveal more details, but I'll summarize some points below: - Webapps are supposed to be stand-alone, container-independent. - All the information about the environment that you can get in a portable fashion is contained in the servlet context object. - Anything else, e.g. the location of various directories or files outside your webapp, should be provided by you manually in your deployment descriptor. - server.xml is tomcat-specific, does not have a dtd/schema, can never have one, and is not guaranteed to contain a <Context tag for your webapp. - The path can be retrieved from a ServletRequest (getContextPath()). It typically corresponds to the display-name element in your web.xml, if you specify one. The display-name of the context is therefore available from the servlet context during initialization: getServletContextName(). - The docBase is very container-dependent. You don't want to depend on it for anything. Instead, include the relevant directory as a context-param. Consider the example of deploying a .war file to an Oracle 9iAS server: the war file stays packaged and where's your docBase? ;) Obviously, you could hack your way into parsing server.xml and getting Context elements and all their attributes. But the approach would not be portable, and is not even likely to work with future versions of tomcat. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Sridhar Devulkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:10 PM >To: Tomcat Users List (E-mail) >Subject: Accessing the Context tag attributes of server.xml ... > >Hello, > >I am trying to get the application url (path) and the docBase value that I >have provided in my <Context> tag in the server.xml file from my servlet >code. The context that I have given is like this .. > ><Context path="/admin" debug="9" docBase="modules/admin/public" >reloadable="true"> > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="admin_log." suffix=".txt" > timestamp="true"/> ></Context> > >I somehow need to ge the "path" and the "docBase" values without issuing a >Http request. Actually, I have a servlet that perform all my application >initialization and that point, I need to get these values. > >Please help. > >Thanks. > >Sridhar. > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
