The "standard" way to specify configuration data in J2EE is through JNDI. With this, I am not telling you to drop your config file, but specify its path there ;-)
In Tomcat, the JNDI tree is specified in the server.xml descriptor. You will find good documentation on this topic on the tomcat web pages
Rodrigo Ruiz
Milt Epstein wrote:
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Arora, Avinash wrote:
Hi,
How can we specify the location of config file, so that we don't
have to hardcode it in our code. Thanks.
You can specify the location in the config file.
Oh wait, never mind.
Other alternatives are specifying it as init-param's (either servlet or context) in web.xml. Still somewhat hard-coded, but not as bad as putting it in the servlet code itself. A bit of a bootstrapping issue here.
Also, I think I saw something here recently about being to specify certain init-param's in server.xml, not sure of the details, maybe that's a possibility.
Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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