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Message:

absolute url to a properties file

Posted by Sebastien on March 06, 2001 at 4:10 PM

> Hi!

> I've got a properties file that contains username, password, etc for connecting to a database.
> Everything works fine, except that the path to this file is hardcoded.
> (ie: e:\sites\intranet\unts.....)

> I've been asked not to hard code this in, and instead use an absolute url so that the applicatin can then be moved to another server.
> In another forum, I was told you could not do this. The path had to be the way I've got it right now.

> Is this so?
> Thanks for all your help,
> Annette

You can have the absolute path of your file, if the file is at the same place of your class. Because if you write those line of code:

URL CodeBase;
CodeBase=this.getCodeBase();