Re: Getting an absolute path into a servlet's context-param value w/o hardcoding in web.xml

2011-07-29 Thread chris derham
> > As part of the "configuration" of the servlet to be deployed into an > environment, it wants a directory path passed as a servlet context > parameter: > > (WEB-INF/web.xml) > > >3rd-party-app.home >/path/to/directory > > > > In our environments, "/path/to/directory" will b

Getting an absolute path into a servlet's context-param value w/o hardcoding in web.xml

2011-07-29 Thread Jason Pringle
Hi all, We have a 3rd party application that is deployed into our environment. As it is 3rd party we have no control over changing the servlet code itself. As part of the "configuration" of the servlet to be deployed into an environment, it wants a directory path passed as a servlet context pa