Howdy,
>OK, so my question - if I want to do this, where in the file system
should
>I stick the xml file so it doesn't get overwritten if the war is
>redeployed? A user's home directory? That will force the user to mess
>with the configuration.
>
>I'm a out of my league on this, so I'd apprecia
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: io path information in servlets
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Will Hartung wrote:
>
> > It has CONVENTIONALLY been done this way, as it's a fairly obvious
> >
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Will Hartung wrote:
>
> This all came out of the fact that it seems essentially impossible to create
> a webapp according to the 2.3 spec that uses file based storage and have it
> be usable "out of the box" with zero basic configuration to start up. For
> example, I don't
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Will Hartung wrote:
> It has CONVENTIONALLY been done this way, as it's a fairly obvious
> optimization to handle a web app (who wants to constantly grind through a
> jar file for crying out loud). However, what is convention, and what is
> specification are two completely
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Paul Phillips wrote:
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:20:00 -0500
> From: Paul Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: io path information in servlet
With Tomcat, normally when you deploy a .war file, it gets expanded and the
context is run out of the directory created upon expansion, not the .war
file itself. For intance if you put a "myapp.war" file in
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps (and haven't defined the context in server.xml because,
if defined
From: "Paul Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: io path information in servlets
> I have a webapp that stores some data in an xml file. (I am using jdom to
> read and write the xml files.)
>
> Right now I am using a const
I have a webapp that stores some data in an xml file. (I am using jdom to
read and write the xml files.)
Right now I am using a construct like:
String prefix = sc.getRealPath("/") + "/WEB-INF/dirName/";
to get the path. I then concatonate that with the file name and it works
fine.
However,
