Hi,
Most of j2ee application servers (tomcat, jboss) when a war or ear
file is deployed. It will generate a folder which contains the same
file structure (web application format) as which is in the war or ear
file.
A war is considered as a file but not a path. So if Tomcat only reads
war but not a directory based content, it has problem (when changes to
parent path, or changes to child path). Besides, a war is a packed jar
file, reading a directory based content is a lot more easier and
faster than a packed jar file.
On 8/9/06, Romain Quilici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I know that this question has been asked many times, but still something
not clear for me.
When an application is deployed as a war file, (as mentioned in the
javadoc, or in several messages), context.getRealPath() will return null.
However, Tomcat creates automatically a directory under webapps to
contain war file contents, so I am wondering if Tomcat is using the
newly generated directory to load the application(1st case) or
the war file (2nd case).
In the first case context.getRealPath("/") should return the path to the
newly generated directory.
In the second case, why does Tomcat generate the directory to contain
war file contents?
Thanks for the explanation
Regards
Romain
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