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Subject: RE: unpackWars
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:47:35 -0400
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>


Howdy,

>One way that I know that seems to work with Tomcat is to call
>getServletContext().getRealPath()
>If it returns null, that means you are running as a WAR file.
>
>I'm not sure how reliable this is.  Seems to be fine from what I've
>seen.

This is more or less reliable.  The original question is skewed at bes=
t,
however, as a webapp is not supposed to know whether it's packed or no=
t
and certainly not supposed to run differently depending on whether it'=
s
packed or not.

Yoav Shapira


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