How to find directory of web app in an axis web service

[jeremy]

I've built an axis web service, and I am reading a properties file
using the code below. The problem is that depending on the
configuration of tomcat, the default location to read the file from
could theoretically be anything.
What I want is to read the file from a subdirectory in the axis
directory, but I don't want to hard code that, so how can I determine
programatically where the axis directory is located, or what the
directory of the web service is?

Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(new java.io.FileInputStream("My.properties"));

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

I've built an axis web service, and I am reading a properties file
using the code below. The problem is that depending on the
configuration of tomcat, the default location to read the file from
could theoretically be anything.
What I want is to read the file from a subdirectory in the axis
directory, but I don't want to hard code that, so how can I determine
programatically where the axis directory is located, or what the
directory of the web service is?

Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(new java.io.FileInputStream("My.properties"));

Why not read it as a resource from the classpath ?

Arne

 

[jeremy]

Why not read it as a resource from the classpath ?

Arne

Can you give me an example of how to do that?

 

[Philipp Taprogge]

Hi!

Thus spake jeremy on 04/20/2007 07:29 PM:

Can you give me an example of how to do that?

You could do something like this:

class MyClassInsideAWarFile {

public void someMethod() {
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(this.getClass()
.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/my.properties");
}
}


HTH,

Phil

 

[Lew]

Hi!

Thus spake jeremy on 04/20/2007 07:29 PM:

You could do something like this:

class MyClassInsideAWarFile {

public void someMethod() {
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(this.getClass()
.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/my.properties");
}
}

Am I right that that will find a file "WEB-INF/my.properties" relative to an
element of the classpath?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Can you give me an example of how to do that?

Properties p = new Properties();
p.load(getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("foobar.properties"));

where foobar.properties are either WEB-INF/classes/foobar.properties
or WEB-INF/lib/something.jar!foobar.properties.

Arne