RE: io path information in servlets

2002-07-22 Thread Shapira, Yoav
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 appreciate

Re: io path information in servlets

2002-07-18 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
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 think

Re: io path information in servlets

2002-07-18 Thread Will Hartung
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 optimization to handle a web app (who wants

io path information in servlets

2002-07-17 Thread Paul Phillips
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, in

Re: io path information in servlets

2002-07-17 Thread Will Hartung
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 construct like: String prefix

Re: io path information in servlets

2002-07-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
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,

Re: io path information in servlets

2002-07-17 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
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 servlets I have a webapp that stores some data

Re: io path information in servlets

2002-07-17 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
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