Howdy,

>True to the reference my war file does not expand. But I am having a
>problem when using
>
>servlet.getServletContext().getRealPath( "/" ) in one of my startup
>servlets.
>
>This is returning null and so the app fails to load.
>
>Is there a way to solve this?

Don't use ServletContext#getRealPath(...).  Use
ServletContext#getResource(...) instead.  The former relies on the
filesystem, which doesn't make sense inside a packed .war file.  The
latter works whether inside a .war file or not.

Yoav Shapira



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