-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Cris,
On 3/10/17 12:56 PM, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote: > Chuck > >>> How do you all configure the location of a special folder that >>> is not part of the deployment package itself? A site-specific >>> config file perhaps? >> >> Take a look at this: >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/resources.html >> >> A <Resources> element within <Context> allows specification of >> areas outside of the Tomcat deployment that the webapp can access >> via ServletContext .getResource() or getResourceAsStream(). > > Thanks for pointing that out. Hmm... It looks like > getResourceAsStream might work. We use a library to processes the > files. Currently we supply it with a java.io.File as an input > source, but the library also can accept a java.io.InputStream for > input too. Don't forget to close the InputStream when you are done ;) I see a ton of code like this: configureFromPropertiesFile(app.getResourceAsStream("/config.file")) I suspect the JVM does finally close all that junk up, but it's really bad programming practice IMHO. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYwu8eAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYxuEQAKdgNAu6UvD1MM7faL/BrIzX VnYoBlpMwJ8wEWBRqtg7MrLkhzCFnhrtO/hhVxc2tAeliz2Pk7VlXMv34vlt/uCl r/t+o4lPju9WsJaT1AmjkytBGLum9Ab5VBMbmsS/jtyiJ9iC/ghR0VbJJG6yB3B9 +Ycbfb9wodLXJ5UYzzNEuLBOndR3P1etw1OSRRxdG8g8eI3GPYM+L8NeqP7s9jhf 9up3PbT0k1GOo4Jhqo1bvzBoMEfVptQKn2E+QzrtaeYcMNPS7Slr79gWG8jBYEeV cfIDxhQ1nIabmT4Rqke1K/Ek/duTRXXIuPj1QNVSr0uEgi3pgfaNgQCyhwjj32+l U1PFOXeADoCh/ofzpGUoxnkXhXNXCNPFdjvmpjUwahB6x1YqgIPqOEZvIbuCiAnT yPlBncszQlpurrsmR7AWvW28p8NhScjwYYeGG6VRfBhLKMLvTrnfSeQBNcq//vfn wPSyVpn4zH28X2Mqe83VYCLXqXne5QPITffshOFYylUQPhikrSdLSgylCl6Cnoya n/cqjCmJTVrOH+BBiIOtjYZWDCvodX6E95W+pUb4BOtrdp1a5A31L58RU3hiorqo xv1ZbWWpUASNTQXJQFkJMGYNCU2aRbxgW6/65Tv6chgpF1pDa5xKN43ArVyhsoIu y1uf4m+Q8hgeM8Fvv2XA =gSr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
