What about creating one more singleton object that is constructed with the ServletContext, and then all of the other objects use that one to access the file? It's probably a good idea to encapsulate access to the file anyway.
-- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 Phone 202-463-4860 ext. 258 / Fax 202-463-4863 > -----Original Message----- > From: Etienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:28 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: How to get the web application or Tomcat path > inside a class > > > It is because the applications work with a lot of "interne" > singleton objects (one instance for all the application). > Like a ConnectionPool or a ApplicationScopeUtil that do not > need to know the actual request, of servlet context: this > would add a unused parameter to all the methods and mix up > everything, and maybe creating new thread problems... > > So, for now, I don't want to put inside each singleton object > a constructor asking for the ServletContext parameter... or > HttpServletRequest parameter... everything is working well > without any request indication. But when I need to get a file > on the drive, I need to know where is the tomcat path... That > is the only problem here. There is no way to get the > CATALINA_HOME of the JVM? > > E.L > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 7, 2003 5:14 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: How to get the web application or Tomcat path > inside a class > > Why don't you have access to the ServletContext? That's > really the only portable way to access resources in your webapp. > > -- > Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer > 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 > Phone 202-463-4860 ext. 258 / Fax 202-463-4863 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Etienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:01 PM > > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > > Subject: How to get the web application or Tomcat path > inside a class > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to get the web application path or the tomcat > > path inside a java bean not using any "Request" object? I am > > running tomcat on Windows. I need sometime to access xml file > > placed on the <web_app_path>/xml/ folder. On windows, it is > > easy to retrace them because the starting (default) path for > > retrieving a file is based on the web application path. So > > new File("xml/myfile.xml") works. > > > > But on the unix box, the starting (default) path is at > > <tomcat_path>/bin/. I don't want to put my xml files there. > > So, is there a way (without the > > servletContext.getRealPath("//"); method, because I don't > > have access to the servletContext object ) to retrieve the > > path of the tomcat path or better, the Web Application path? > > > > tks > > > > E.L. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
