How to get the physical path of my web app root context ?

Question

Hi,
I used this code to initialize my LOG4J logger.
        System.out.println(Version + "Servlet context path : " + sctx .getContextPath());
        String path = sctx .getRealPath("/");
        fullyqualifiedlog4jpath = path + "log4j.xml";
        File locallogxml = new File(fullyqualifiedlog4jpath);
        if (locallogxml.exists()) {
            initialized = true;
            DOMConfigurator.configure(fullyqualifiedlog4jpath);
            log = Logger.getLogger(Log4j.class.getName());
            log.info(Version + "Logger initialized");
        else {
            System.out.println(Version + "Unable to locate the log4j.xml file");
        }It works perfectly when running the application with the embedded Jdev11 WLS.
When deploying the application on a standalone WLS server the path is not returned ;-( I get a null value.
Does someone has three lines of code which get the physical path of my web app root context?
Yves

Answer 1

Changed the methiod used to access log4j.xml.
        FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        ServletContext sctx = (ServletContext) ctx.getExternalContext().getContext();
        String contextPath = sctx.getContextPath();
        HttpServletRequest  hsr = (HttpServletRequest)ctx.getExternalContext().getRequest();
        String host = hsr.getServerName();
        int port = hsr.getServerPort();
        try
          String urlstring = "http://" + host + ":" + port + contextPath + "/faces/log4j.xml";
          DOMConfigurator.configure(new URL(urlstring));
          log = Logger.getLogger(Log4j.class.getName());
.....using the URL s OK.