Hi, is there a way to find the absolute path of the application root before the servlet is initialized?
Alternatively: is there a way to defer the initialization of a datasource until the servlet is initialized? Background: I have extended "org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" to automatically set credentials so that they are not stored in the "Catalina/localhost/XXX.xml" file. Instead they are taken from encrypted values in a file below the application root. Works fine if I know that path at "createDataSource" time. In order to avoid hard coding that path, I need a programmatic to find that value. Unfortunately the datasource is initialized before the servlet, so "getRealPath()" is not working yet. Environment is Tomcat 8 plus JDK 8. Plus an commercial application that I do not want to name :-) Thanks in advance Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
