How to find the root document in my application, if application is deployed as EAR file ??

Question

          Hi,
          I want the real path, i mean root document.
          I my EAR file, i have only one WAR file. In my WAR file the following are the
          folders:-
          enterprise/..
          properties/sql/..
          locale/..
          WEB-INF/..
          Once i get the 'real path' or 'root document', I will use that in application
          in no.of times. Path is used in the following way in our application:-
          File emailTemplatesFolder = new File( path + "/enterprise/"+ enterpriseCode+"/EmailTemplates");
          If i use getRealPath() method, it works fine, in use Oracle9ias, because, EAR
          file will be extracted. Where as in Weblogic 6.1, EAR file willn't be extracted,
          so that getRealPath() is giving 'null', that is reason why i am seeking for alternative.
          Thanks in Advance
          Srinivas
          

Answer 1

Yes, that is the corrected behaviour.
What you need to do is to get the ServletContext, and then load the files as resources.
Here is how to load a properties file in the init() servlet method, which has access to the ServletConfig object that can give u the ServletContext.
String classesDir = "/WEB-INF/classes";
ServletContext sc = config.getServletContext();
InputStram is = sc.getResourceAsStream(classesDir+"default.properties");
props.load(is);
Hope it helps,
Liviu