proper way to access local dir? 2004-01-16 - By Daniel
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Thanks Jim. I like your JNDI method - hate having to muck with settings
each time I deploy on different boxes. :)
Regards,
Daniel
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Tim Funk wrote:
> If you don't care about where the files are written to, you can use
> "javax.servlet.context.tempdir". See the spec "SRV.3.7.1 Temporary Working
> Directories" for details.
>
> If you need a permanent local directory, I prefer to use a JNDI string lookup
> (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4 (See http://cat-4.ora-code.com).1-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html)
> to the name of the directory. This way I don't need to change my web.xml on
> my development box vs qna vs production.
>
>
>
> -Tim
>
> Daniel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to access a "file respository" (for read and write of files)
> > from my servlet. I was wondering what's the best way to do this in a
> > container/platform-independent manner?
> >
> > Is it possible without putting an "init" param in the web.xml that
> > specifies my repository's directory or hard coding it into my servlet?
> >
> > I noticed the servlet 2.3 api has ServletContext.getResource(path) but
> > it doesn't return a path to a local file directory that I'm interested
> > in. :(
> >
>
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