One clarification and a solution...
At 12:48 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I finally had my Catalina-Ant undeploy task working after I included context.xml into my war's META-INF directory. What this deployment doing is
- war is uploaded to $CATALINA/work/Standalone/my.host/manager; - war is unpacked into $CATALIAN_HOME/webapps/myapp;
completely false
It is actually (partially) unpacked to CATALINA_HOME/work/Standalone/my.host/myapp . I say "partially" because only contents of the WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib directory are extracted to said place.
- context.xml is extracted to manager directory as myapp.xml; - server.xml is modified to include the content in myapp.xml; - myapp is loaded.
I noticed that myapp's docBase in the modified server.xml is the war in manager directory. This helps to undeploy myapp but prevents me from reading my configuration xmls from WEB-INF/conf. I cannot getServletContext().getRealPath("/") to get $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/myapp. According to Servlet API doc, getRealPath returns null if content is available from war. I don't want to hard-code the path into web.xml as init-param or into my init Servlet. Does any one have input?
This one is easy. Never ever use File IO unless there is no other way to do what you need. I this case, you can use context.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myconfigfile.properties");
See the javadoc for ServletContext for other ways to do this as well.
Jake
Regards,
PQ
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