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From: Susan Barretta <barretta@itmedicine.net>
Subject: RE: Trying to find resource directory location
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That's true, I did discover where the servlet was, but that is not where my 
service is.  Rather
than do something convoluted and strip \bin off of $CATALINA_HOME\bin and 
appending
webapps\axis\web-inf\lib, I was hoping for a better way to locate my service.

Thanks anyhow,
Susan

At 02:57 PM 6/6/2003 -0400, mser wrote:
>I had a similar problem loading some configuration files from my web
>service.   The answer is $CATALINA_HOME/bin.  After all it is a servlet.
>
>Somewhere in Axis land I found this code which revealed the mystery:
>
>MessageContext msgContext = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
>String rootDir =
>msgContext.getProperty(HTTPConstants.MC_HTTP_SERVLETLOCATI
>ON).toString();
>
>Michael Ser
>Netweave Integrated Solutions, Inc.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Susan Barretta [mailto:barretta@itmedicine.net]
>Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:13 PM
>To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
>Subject: Trying to find resource directory location
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have Axis services all zipped up in a jar under axis\web-inf\lib and
>the
>services run fine.  This is Axis 1.1 under Tomcat 4.1.24.
>
>One service is deployed as follows (from my server-config.wsdd):
>
>   <service name="DICOMPacsProvider" provider="java:RPC">
>    <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="getDicomProvider"/>
>    <parameter name="className"
>value="DICOMSoapServices.dicomPacsProvider.DICOMPacsProvider"/>
>    <beanMapping
>languageSpecificType="java:DICOMObjects.services.DICOMPacsNode"
>qname="ns1:DICOMPacsNode" xmlns:ns1="urn:DICOMPacsProvider"/>
>   </service>
>
>My services use xml config files that up to now I had zipped up in the
>jar,
>and which I had been accessing with getResourceAsStream().  However we
>want
>those xml config files to be external to the jar so that we can easily
>modify them without having to modify the service jar.
>
>However, I now need to get the directory path to those xml files and I
>cannot figure out how to communicate to my service any Axis context
>information.  I was hoping to do something like getRealPath("/web-inf").
>
>I have tried the following in order to get context information, however
>I
>seem to blow up with a NullPointerException when I try to
>getServletContext():
>
>   try {
>            Class axisClass
>=
>Class.forName("org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase",false,thi
>s.getClass().getClassLoader());
>            if (axisClass == null) {
>                System.out.println ("DOES NOT WORK - returned class is
>null.") ;
>            } else {
>                System.out.println ("IT WORKS - found a class!") ;  //
>YES
>            }
>
>            AxisServletBase asb =
>(AxisServletBase)axisClass.newInstance();
>
>            if (asb == null) {
>               System.out.println ("CANNOT find AXIS BASE.") ;
>            } else {
>              System.out.println("IT WORKS - found Axis base.") ; // YES
>              System.out.println ("LOAD COUNTER is " +
>asb.getLoadCounter());  // RETURNS 2
>            }
>
>            System.out.println ("ABOUT to try getting CONTEXT...") ;  //
>YES
>I SEE THIS
>            ServletContext sc = asb.getServletContext();       // BLOWS
>UP HERE
>            System.out.println ("GOT context...") ;                //
>NEVER
>GET TO HERE
>
>             if (sc == null) {
>                System.out.println ("WHYYYY is SERVLET CONTEXT NULL?") ;
>//
>I NEVER SEE THIS
>            } else {
>               System.out.println ("FOUND Servlet Context!") ;  // NEVER
>SEE
>THIS EITHER
>               String home = sc.getRealPath("/") ;
>               System.out.println ("HOME DIRECTORY for applet is " +
>home) ;
>            }
>
>
>My service classes are not subclassed from anything in the Axis API.
>
>Any ideas?????
>
>Thanks,
>Susan

-- Susan