on 9/13/2000 9:40 AM, "Rafal Krzewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I took some time and read Servlets 2.2 spec. You can define some
> 'application
> environment' items that your application is expecting to find in the
> appserver's
> naming service. You can provide the entry name name, expected type (String,int
> etc.)
> and optional default value.
> This is the proper way of dealing with deployment time settings. Nice, but we
> would
> have to depend on naming service being available. How does this sound like?
> Are
> there free (APL) implementations of naming servers that we could start
> alongside
> with Tomcat to emulate industry-grade application server? Or maybe I'm going
> in
> the worong direction? Tell me what you think.
gag. sounds like it is overkill like most of the rest of the crap that went
into 2.2. :-(
> Oh, there is a directory where a webapp is waranteed to have write rights. It
> can be determined with:
> File tempDir =
> (File)servletContext.getAttribute("javax.servlets.context.tempdir");
> (works under Tomcat)
> I think it may prove useful.
We can't be servlet engine dependent. I guess you could try to get that
directory and then if you can't, report an error making people do manual
configuration steps.
-jon
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