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Hell Boy
Hell Boy

Reputation: 899

Why System.getProperty does not works as expected

I have Java EE application and in one of its servlets I am using 

System.getProperty("user.dir")

but this returns me my eclipse directory not the project directory !

for testing this I created a test project.. a stand alone Java application project in eclipse and used the same code and it returns the path of the project directory ! (this is what I want)

Question : why the behavior is diff ? how in my servlet can I get path of the project directory ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1602

Answers (2)

Óscar López
Óscar López

Reputation: 236034

For accessing the path of the project directory from a servlet, try this:

request.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath("/")

Other than that, System.getProperty("user.dir") is in fact working as expected, returning the user working directory (which is not necessarily the same as the project's directory). Please read the documentation first.

Upvotes: 4

jahroy
jahroy

Reputation: 22692

If you actually read the documentation it says this:

user.dir The current working directory when the properties were initialized

Sounds like it's working as expected to me...

From here: http://www.mindspring.com/~mgrand/java-system-properties.htm

Upvotes: 2

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