[SNIP] >> chris S>>> getRealPath is a bad idea. <<< >> >> For my education's sake, would you please explain that? [SNIP] > > There is no guarantee it will return a non-null value. The typical reason > is if the app is running from a packed WAR. Using it reduces the portability > of your application. > > Mark
Thanks for explaining that. Never occurred to me that running from a WAR would return null. I used getRealPath thinking it would *increase* portability, since yet-another-config-option would not need to be manually set (or verified) after every deployment or in a different environment. "Why did the such-and-so fail? Oh... I forgot to set the folder location - again." By using getRealPath the setting never, ever needs to be configured - it's automatic. But now I may need to rethink that. BTW, why doesn't getRealPath return the full path to the folder that the WAR file is in instead of null? -- Cris Berneburg CACI Lead Software Engineer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
