How to write a file in the directory of a webapp..

[SPG]

Hi,
I have a servlet application running on tomcat.
I want to write a default config file in the root directory of the
application:

tomcat
+webapps
+myapp
+myConfig.txt

If I use new File(./myConfig.txt), then the file goes to the root of tomcat.
Ither there an easy way to find out the directory of the running app?

Cheers,

Steve

[Jeff Rhines]

I've got the same issue... the only work-around i found was to specify the
entire path to the file in the web.xml file as an initialization parameter
to a servlet. That obviously doesn't work for .WAR deployments, though.
Anyone else have a better solution? I'd love to hear it.

Jeff

"SPG" <st************@nopoo.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a servlet application running on tomcat.
I want to write a default config file in the root directory of the
application:

tomcat
+webapps
+myapp
+myConfig.txt

If I use new File(./myConfig.txt), then the file goes to the root of tomcat. Ither there an easy way to find out the directory of the running app?

Cheers,

Steve

[Pipo]

>

Ither there an easy way to find out the directory of the running app?

Try this one -if the WAR file is expandend

getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
Lau.

[DWY]

I have a similar question in that I have a .war deployed and allow users
to upload to a folder named WEB-INF/uploads. However, how can I retain
what they uploaded if I need to re-deploy the .war?

The app. server creates a new folder when deploying a .war, meaning, the
path changes and the files previously uploaded are now not in the
WEB-INF/uploads folder.

Pipo wrote:

Ither there an easy way to find out the directory of the running app?

Try this one -if the WAR file is expandend

getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
Lau.