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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Nick Bauman <ni...@cortexity.com> on 2000/09/15 21:38:47 UTC

Re: Question about differing behavior between Unix and NT

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Arieh Markel wrote:

> On our application, the docBase is set programmatically.
> 
> The question is with regards to whether the pathname for the docBase
> needs to be in the format native to the host o.s ?

Computing a path in Java should always use a platform-independent
technique like:

String sep = System.getProperty("path.seperator"); 

instead of hardcoding the seperator to whatever seperator your host
platform uses, eh? 

-Nick