Filename with environment variable?

[shine67]

Hi,

I am writing a jsp running under Apache/Tomcat in which I try to do some file I/O's:

FileWriter afile = new FileWriter("/a/n/c/d/e/output.txt"

Is there anyway to define and use some kind of environment variable under with Apache or Tomcat or even under unix such as:

FileWriter afile = new FileWriter("SOME_PATH/e/output.txt"

Right now I write the whole path wherever I need to open a file and it is really cumbersome and I am sure there is a better way of doing this.

Thanks,
Shine

 

[alanrushforth]

Hi,

This may not be the solution that you are looking for. If you are opening lots of files in the same JSP page couldnt you just use a string constant:
<%!
public static final String MY_PATH = &quot;a/b/c/d/&quot;;
%>
This obviously wont work if you want to use in on a number ofpages.
How about looking in web.xml and seeing if you can use the init param tag? I am not entirely sur how this works but i think it might work.

Hope that helps
Al.