On 21/02/2017 13:31, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to find the absolute path of the application root before > the servlet is initialized? > > Alternatively: is there a way to defer the initialization of a datasource > until the servlet is initialized? > > Background: I have extended "org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" > to automatically set credentials so that they are not stored in the > "Catalina/localhost/XXX.xml" file. Instead they are taken from encrypted > values in a file below the application root. Works fine if I know that path > at "createDataSource" time.
And the decryption key for that file is stored where? https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Password > In order to avoid hard coding that path, I need a programmatic to find that > value. Unfortunately the datasource is initialized before the servlet, so > "getRealPath()" is not working yet. > > Environment is Tomcat 8 plus JDK 8. Plus an commercial application that I > do not want to name :-) Ignoring what I suspect is a fundamental flaw in this plan, you probably want a ServletContextListener and contextInitialized() Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
