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https://coderanch.com/forums/ The /work directory in question is created by the sysdeo plugin and is therefore IDE-specific. Although AFAIK it is a relocated version of the
Tomcat work directory.
I create my projects so that exploded WARs are built under a "build" project subdirectory. Since supposedly users can't look up beyond the directory containing the webapp (e.g. build/webapp), they won't see the sysdeo work directory. But in any event, this directory is part of the
IDE environment and doesn't appear when you move the app to production. At that point the designated Tomcat work directory is used - assuming you've deployed to Tomcat - other appservers may operate differently.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.