Good idea, or I suppose I could put something in web.xml and use an initialisation servlet to store it in the context.
Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Layman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:47 PM Subject: RE: Saving files from Tomcat > > The way that we deal with this is have a system configuration > parameter to indicate the path. The system configuration is either stored > in the database or some properties file in the classpath, then when the app > moves (or we deploy to a different server) we just edit the configuration. > > Randy > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Muffett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 1:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Saving files from Tomcat > > > > > > I have to save some data in files from a servlet (can't get > > blobs to work > > with JDBC) - is there any good (portable) way to express the > > directory path? > > I'm just worried that an absolute path is going to cause > > problems if the > > site is moved. > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > Mark Muffett > > >