Where is the “work” directory located for a Tomcat instance running in Eclipse?

Question

In Eclipse you can configure numerous servers to run inside the IDE, including Tomcat. Depending on your Tomcat configuration, at some point in the life cycle of a webapp your J

Answer 1

The easiest way is most likely to ask a compiled JSP page about the source of the byte code.

From http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.lang/ClassOrigin.html:

// Get the location of this class
Class cls = this.getClass();
ProtectionDomain pDomain = cls.getProtectionDomain();
CodeSource cSource = pDomain.getCodeSource();
URL loc = cSource.getLocation();  // file:/c:/almanac14/examples/

Hopefully this helps. What is it you want to do?