It is because the applications work with a lot of "interne" singleton objects (one instance for all the application). Like a ConnectionPool or a ApplicationScopeUtil that do not need to know the actual request, of servlet context: this would add a unused parameter to all the methods and mix up everything, and maybe creating new thread problems...
So, for now, I don't want to put inside each singleton object a constructor asking for the ServletContext parameter... or HttpServletRequest parameter... everything is working well without any request indication. But when I need to get a file on the drive, I need to know where is the tomcat path... That is the only problem here. There is no way to get the CATALINA_HOME of the JVM? E.L -----Original Message----- From: Tim Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 7, 2003 5:14 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: How to get the web application or Tomcat path inside a class Why don't you have access to the ServletContext? That's really the only portable way to access resources in your webapp. -- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 Phone 202-463-4860 ext. 258 / Fax 202-463-4863 > -----Original Message----- > From: Etienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:01 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: How to get the web application or Tomcat path inside a class > > > Hi, > > Is there a way to get the web application path or the tomcat > path inside a java bean not using any "Request" object? I am > running tomcat on Windows. I need sometime to access xml file > placed on the <web_app_path>/xml/ folder. On windows, it is > easy to retrace them because the starting (default) path for > retrieving a file is based on the web application path. So > new File("xml/myfile.xml") works. > > But on the unix box, the starting (default) path is at > <tomcat_path>/bin/. I don't want to put my xml files there. > So, is there a way (without the > servletContext.getRealPath("//"); method, because I don't > have access to the servletContext object ) to retrieve the > path of the tomcat path or better, the Web Application path? > > tks > > E.L. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
