RE: Servlet Properties

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Bruce Jin
>
>  I use absolute location to tell servlet where to find a file.
> File file = new File("/home/myfile.txt").
>
>  To tell servlet which driver to use I use a few lines of code to
> detect if
> the servlet is running on window or on A400. This way I don't
> have to use a
> property file.

While I highly endorse Bruce's use of System properties to determine which
machine you're running on, I do not like absolute paths.  It may be more of
an issue in my environment, because I have several versions of software
running, each on its own application server.  There's a setup file for each
one, stored in the IFS.  Each application has its own document root, and so
I can configure each instance independently.  This is a must, for me.

Joe