How to get application directory?

[SuperMoonster]

Hello everyone,

I wanna get the directory from where my application is running. Is there a way to do it?
I tried:

System.getProperty("user.dir");



But it returns me my linux user directory (/home/myname).

How can I make it return the dir from where the app is running? Thanks

 

[Diancecht]

Something like

java.io.File f = new java.io.File(".");
return f.getCanonicalPath();

would do the trick.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[timw]

That's a neat trick if it works, Dian. I may use that myself at some point.

Tim
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[Diancecht]

Feel free, it's not mine

http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0076.html

http://javaalmanac.com/egs/javax.swing.filechooser/CurDir.html?l=rel

http://www.jchq.net/tutorial/11_01Tut.htm

Cheers,
Dian

 

[SuperMoonster]

Is this supposed to work in a web application? For that's my case.

If I use your method in a desktop app, in works. In a web app, it doesn't.
I just wanna get the full path of where my web app is running, something like: /srv/

http://www/tomcat5/webapps/MyApp

Is it possible?

 

[Diancecht]

Oh, then I think that's a question for the J2EE forum or the Tomcat forum, this is for J2SE questions.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[SuperMoonster]

Sorry... I'll post there. Thanks

 

[sedj]

Well you did not actually say it was for a webapp did you ?!

From a JSP or servlet :

String webappRoot = getServletContext().getRealPath("/");

will give you :

TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/YourWebApp

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