RE: Source Evaluation?

["Clapham, Paul" <pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It depends how you do it.  The FileInputStream class will not use the
classpath; it will use the directory you tell it to use.  If you don't tell
it (as in the example given), it will use the "current directory".  It's
obscure to me what that is, but I've seen it be C:\WinNT\System, which isn't
where you want to be putting your properties files.

You can use getServletContext().getRealPath("database.properties") to
prepend a more useful path to your properties file name.  In any case, you
may want to write a test servlet that just displays things like current
directory and the result of getRealPath() back to your browser so you get a
feel for where it's looking for things.  And you might want to have it
output the result of System.getProperty("java.class.path") so you can see
what your servlet engine's classpath is.

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: February 9, 2001 12:23
To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Source Evaluation?


Very cool!  

The only thing that still boggles my mind is what sets the default path
where the program will look for these files?  Is it one path, or is it the
entire classpath?

Brad

> 
</snip>
> 
>    Properties prop = new Properties();
>    prop.load(new FileInputStream("database.properties"));
> 
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