I know this is technically not kosher according to the servlet spec, but
there is a bug in a proprietary servlet framework we use that prevents it
from properly loading context sensitive resources (i.e. It fails when try to
reference something like /WEB-INF/my_config.xml as an init parameter).
We work around this Tomcat by using ../ relative paths. In other words,
Tomcat has CATALINA_BASE and I can work around this bug we have by providing
paths from CATALINA_BASE such as ../webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/my_config.xml.
So does Glassfish have a concept of a ³container home² that I can use to
reference resources relatively via a ../blah/myApp/WEB-INF?
Trying to figure out if that is even possible in Glassfish andd what would
the ../ path look like.
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