Re: Java application getting tomcat's home directory.

Actually, this doesn't work either. getContextPath returns the part of the URL that corresponds to the Context. Assuming that you are using a file-based context, and you can control how the app is deployed (i.e. it is always deployed under webapps), then this might be one of the few real uses

Re: Java application getting tomcat's home directory.

Actually you asked for the home directory so you could use http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.5/docs/servlet-2_5-mr2/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getContextPath() Mark Shifman wrote: You could try http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.5/docs/servlet-2_5-mr2/javax/servlet/ServletContext.

Re: Java application getting tomcat's home directory.

You could try http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.5/docs/servlet-2_5-mr2/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getResource(java.lang.String) or http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.5/docs/servlet-2_5-mr2/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String) mas Ar5eNiC wrote