Tim is right - I am learning something new too.
Interestingly, System.getProperty('java.home') gives 'c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\jre' on my PC.
Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:System.getProperty("catalina.home") should give
you the CATALINA_HOME
environment variable without doing anything extra special to any startup
script.
System.getProperty("catalina.base") will give you ... CATALINA_BASE
-Tim
Shapira, Yoav wrote:
> Howdy,
> In your startup script, add a -D argument to java with the value of
> Catalina home and whatever name you desire. Let's say you want
> "myCatalinaHome" is the property name. Then do:
> java -DmyCatalinaHome=%CATALINA_HOME%
> And it will be available to your programs as
> System.getProperty("myCatalinaHome");
>
> That said, I don't like your design at all. The functioning of your
> JSPs (or any other parts of your webapp) should have nothing to do with
> where your server is installed.
>
> Yoav Shapira
> Millennium ChemInformatics
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Raja Sekhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:59 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: How to get catalina_home variable
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using Tomcat 4.0.6. I am writing a JSP in which I want to get the
>>catalina_home path. I am giving the code as
>>System.getProperty("CATALINA_HOME"). This is retreving me null.
>>
>>I am running tomcat using startup.bat. Please help me asap if you have
>
> any
>
>>suggestions.
>>
>>Thanks & Regards,
>>
>>..Raj
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