What port am I running on?

[Greg Johnson <gr...@yahoo.com>]

If I am running some code on a tomcat server, and I don't have a request object available (for
instance, if I have a timed task that is not dependent on a request....), how can I
programmatically retrieve the port that requests are being served on?  In other words, how can I
retrieve information about the server itself? After Googling around, I found an approach that is
not exactly what I'm looking for...but it seems close. But, the disclaimer around this comment is
that the code is "nonstandard".

>How do I get direct access to a Tomcat Realm?

>Credit: This code is from a post by Yoav Shapira [WWW] http://www.yoavshapira.com in the user
list

>Sometimes access directly into the Tomcat realm object is needed; to do, this the following code
can be used. Be aware, however, that by using this, your application is relying on a Tomcat
extension and is therefore non-standard.

Server server = ServerFactory.getServer();
//Note, this assumes the Container is "Catalina"
Service service = server.findService("Catalina");
Engine engine = (Engine) service.getContainer();
Host host = (Host) engine.findChild(engine.getDefaultHost());
//Note, this assumes your context is "myContext"
Context context = (Context) host.findChild("myContext");
Realm realm = context.getRealm();
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So, what is the RIGHT way to get access to server objects? I have looked at this document:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html

JDBC resources and custom resources are treated in that document. But, is there a way to get other
server objects? How would I find a list of the objects that might be available....and which one
would have the port number? Or is there another solution, rather than JNDI?

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