Just to contribute to delinquency, here's a couple ways to obtain the context path at runtime from the ServletContext....
One way is by taking advantage of Tomcat's naming conventions with the tempdir....
String tempdir =
"" + context.getAttribute("javax.servlet.context.tempdir");
int lastSlash = tempdir.lastIndexOf(File.separator); if ((tempdir.length() - 1) > lastSlash) {
logHomePropName = tempdir.substring(lastSlash + 1) + ".log.home";
}Another, which is more (fully?) server agnostic is...
//use a more standard way to obtain the context path name
//which should work across all servers. The tmpdir technique
//(above) depends upon the naming scheme that Tomcat uses.
String path = context.getResource("/").getPath(); //first remove trailing slash, then take what's left over
//which should be the context path less the preceeding
//slash such as "MyContext"
contextPath = path.substring(0, path.lastIndexOf("/"));
contextPath =
contextPath.substring(contextPath.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);I use that to create an environment variable based on the name of the context because I can reference this predictable and unique name in my log4j properties file without having to specify it multiple places and have to remember to update it all the time...
logHomePropName = contextPath + ".log.home";
Jake
At 02:34 PM 1/7/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Howdy,
>Will it's inclusion encourage programmers to >start building bad apps (no, I think.)
FYI, aside from the issue of developer versus deployer, I strongly disagree with the above: adding anything that encourages bad practices is a bad idea. It'll be like another ServletRequest#getRealPath call, which has been a disaster for years now. Thankfully it was deprecated as soon as possible in version 2.1 of the spec, but still it haunts us and it has caused many bad implementations.
Yoav Shapira
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