RE: How to retrieve the real path for servlets?

getServletContext().getRealPath(""); will only return the doc root of the
web application, not the directory of the servlet class.

I don't think think there is an API that tells where the servlet resides.
I think this is more of a java/JVM question rather than a servlet api
question.  It's along the lines of - the JVM loaded a class from a list of
directories in the classpath, how can I discover at run-time which
directory such class was loaded from?  If anyone knows how to do such a
thing in java, pls speak up.  Short of that, it would be a (not so simple)
matter of parsing thru the system classpath + servlet context classpath
directories one-by-one, searching for the target servlet.


"Clapham, Paul" <pclapham@core-mark.com>@midrange.com on 04/21/2001
07:12:51 PM

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Something like getServletContext().getRealPath(""); will probably do what
you want.

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Jin [mailto:brucej@MRC-PRODUCTIVITY.COM]
Sent: April 20, 2001 10:47
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: How to retrieve the real path for servlets?


Can I retrieve the directory path path for which my servlets resides?

For example, I store my servlets in directory /dirA/dirB/, can I get this
/dirA/dirB/ info within the servlet?

Thanks

Bruce
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