Thanks Mark. I ended up doing something similar (added a context parameter to the context files) which are being generated by the build process.
Jeremy On 8/1/13 1:19 PM, "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >On 01/08/2013 17:45, Majors, Jeremy wrote: >> I've seen multiple postings online that state that when you deploy a >> WAR file rather than using an exploded WAR, then the >> request.getServletContext().getRealPath() method returns null. Due >> to a requirement by my team lead, I cannot deploy the application in >> any other fashion besides a precompiled WAR file (deploying a folder >> fixes this issue) and I was using the >> request.getServletContext().getRealPath() method so that I could get >> the version # of the WAR that I have deployed (ex: myWAR##001.war). >> Is there another way to get the version number? I also looked online >> to see if there was a way to get the docBase parameter from the >> context file, but all the postings for that said to use >> request.getServletContext().getRealPath(), which is returning null. >> >> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. > >There are ways via Tomcat internals but they tend to get blocked in >production environments. > >The simplest way is to add a version.properties file to WEB-INF/classes >(kept up to date by your build script) with the information you need and >access it via the class loader. > >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
