Is there a way to get the absolute path of the context root in tomcat?

Question

I have a problem that, after a lot of reading and research, seems like tomcat is running another instance of itself and thus serving an old version of my updated app (or som

Answer 1

To answer the question in the title, let your code basically do the following:

System.out.println(getServletContext().getRealPath("/"));

To solve the problem described in the question, shutdown Tomcat and delete everything in its /work directory, delete the expanded WAR in /webapps and remove the /Catalina subdirectory of /conf directory (if any) and then restart.