where can I find my servlet ? :)

[Silviu-Lucian]

I have Tomcat running a servlet that needs to know the location of the
WebApp that contains it (actually it needs to know the full path to
itself). I thought that the servlet path was relative to the Tomcat
bin directory (since tomcat si actually running this service). I did a
simple test and found out that tomcat is actually running from
c:\WINDOWS\system32 ... so that's the path that the servlet is
relative to.

Now, normally, that wouldn't bother me much but I really need to know
the path to my servlet (in some sort of multi-platfrom way - since
this revlet is going to be run on a linux server - that dosen't have
any C:\WINDOWS\system32 :D ).

[Murray]

"Silviu-Lucian" <lu****@nortex.ro> wrote in message
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I have Tomcat running a servlet that needs to know the location of the
WebApp that contains it (actually it needs to know the full path to
itself). I thought that the servlet path was relative to the Tomcat
bin directory (since tomcat si actually running this service). I did a
simple test and found out that tomcat is actually running from
c:\WINDOWS\system32 ... so that's the path that the servlet is
relative to.

Now, normally, that wouldn't bother me much but I really need to know
the path to my servlet (in some sort of multi-platfrom way - since
this revlet is going to be run on a linux server - that dosen't have
any C:\WINDOWS\system32 :D ).

I assume since you're using a servlet you'll have access to the
ServletContext. I think you'll find something useful in these methods:

getRealPath()
getResourceAsStream()
getResourcePaths()