Getting the folder name of the service in Tomcat 5.5

Question

Hi,
I am using Tomcat 5.5.
I have a problem getting the folder name my service is located in.
Ex.
\webapps\myApp\...
Here i would like the string "myApp" - does anyone know how to get this?
The reason for this is that i use a war file to deploy "myApp". I have a set of properties which i don't want to change so I put them in a file outside "myApp" called "myApp.properties". I can then easily change between a test environment and my online environment.

Answer 1

I don't think you understand his answer.
Reading properties files from the file system directly is a mediocre solution at best for a web application. Even if it happens to work in this particular situation.
For example you would be better off loading properties from a single properties file as classpath loaded resources and simply using the context as a key to the properties in question. You could also configure this from web environment parameters specific to the web application.
Anything that puts a hard dependency on a particular file system layout is a bad idea, anything that reads files from within a web application server is likely to be a brittle solution.
This may work, for you, in your current circumstances, but you need to understand why this is a poor approach in general.