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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:12:50 -0600
From: Bryan Noll <bwnoll@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to change the default directory
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Not exactly what you're asking for, but couldn't you do this....

String home = servletConfig..getServletContext().getRealPath("/");

or... check out the attached file.


Fran Varin wrote:
> We have a web application that reads some Java Properties files when it
> initializes. In order to avoid having to code a physical directory path to
> the Properties files we would like to use a relative path. 
>
> Also, we would like to keep the Properties files packaged within the WAR
> file. When Geronimo comes up its default path ends up being something like: 
>
> c:\apache\geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1\geronimo-1.0\bin\      (Based on the
> windows install directory)
>
> We have been successful in accomplishing the above using Tomcat since Tomcat
> allows the default directory to be configured. Is there a similar
> configuration for Geronimo?
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How+to+change+the+default+directory-t1670804.html#a4528855
> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users forum at Nabble.com.
>
>
>   

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/**
 * Returns the resource defined by the 'resource' parameter as a
 * java.io.File object. It is expected that the 'resource' parameter is a
 * path (either to a directory or file) relative to the classpath.
 *
 * If the 'resource' path provided is not relative to the classpath, the
 * return value will be a non-null java.io.File object whose 'exists()'
 * method returns false. It is the responsibility of the caller to check
 * the value of 'exists()', as this method makes no guarantee to return
 * a File object that exists.
 *
 * @param caller - Class object to use in the call to:
 * <code> caller.getResource(resource) </code>
 * You should expect a resource you want to use to be loaded by the same
 * ClassLoader that loaded the classes in your artifact (jar, war, ear, etc.)
 *
 * @param resource
 * @return java.io.File - non-null, may or may not exist, depending on
 * 'resource' input param
 */
public static final File getClasspathResource(Class caller, String resource) {
        File returnFile = null;
        try {
    URL url = caller.getResource(resource);

    if (url != null) {
        String urlFile = getFileSystemPathFromUrlPath(url.getFile());
        if (url != null) {
            returnFile = new File(urlFile);
            if (returnFile == null || !returnFile.exists()) {
                returnFile = new File(resource);
            }
        } else {
            returnFile = new File(resource);
        }
    }
} catch (Exception ignore) {
}

return returnFile;
}

/**
 * Replaces the http url encoding of a space (%20) with an actual space,
 * so that if you try to do something like this:
 * <code> File f = new File(filePathString) </code>
 * it will be able to locate the file on the file system.
 *
 * @see http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
 * @see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
 *
 * @param percent20InsteadOfSpacesString
 * @return
 */
public static final String getFileSystemPathFromUrlPath(String percent20InsteadOfSpacesSt
        String goodString = percent20InsteadOfSpacesString.replaceAll("%20", " ");
        return goodString;
}
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