[Anthill] Anthill root directory

[Eric Minick]

Tim,

That's a good enough idea, but it doesn't really help on the Anthill OS 
side where we don't rebuild the war file. :)

Cheers,

Eric

Tim Colson (tcolson) wrote:

>>Being in a war file, Anthill needs to drop a breadcrumb in some known 
>>location that will point it towards the its install directory. The 
>>approach is to drop a .anthill.<context>.properties file in the home 
>>directory of the user it is running as and have the contents of that 
>>file point it to the installation directory. 
>>    
>>
>
>Suggestion for next AHP version: an init-param in the web.xml that would
>over-ride the file-based setting. This would make it easy to modify the
>web.xml/war to point to the AHP home directory without attempting to
>write a hidden file somewhere that might not be writeable. ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>Timo
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