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Guys,

The question below,

When the context path is defined as /furniture and the servlet called search, which options best describes the result returned from the getPathInfo() method?

/furniture/tables/search?type=kitchen

1) ""
2) /search
3) /search?type=kitchen
4) null

The answer given as null???


Guys what it means by saying context path and root and home with respect to web applications?? I always get lost in questions of this type!
 
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That URL does not contain any extra path info. This one:



would have

"/type/kitchen" as path info.
 
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getPathInfo() returns extra path info and it is the path between servlet and query string. In your example there is nothing between "search" and "?type=kitchen", so it is null.
 
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Hey Ulf & Sri,

Thanks for the help! I understood getPathInfo()!
 
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Guys,

Still I'm dubious about what it means by saying context root and document root?? Can anyone clarify this...probably with a small example?
 
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Document root is where you keep your web files and it is an absolute path on your file system. Context root is a kind of virtual directory for web users to access web files.

Ex:
Web Server/Servlet Container - Tomcat

You can place all your web files (html,jsp, classes etc.) in C:\MyProject directory and it is your document directory. You specify this in Tomcat configuration.
In Tomcat configuration file you can specify "/myweb" as context root of your web application. Web users access this application with something like "http://myweb/...".
 
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1. Document root is not explained in the Servlet specs, nor the Context root.
2. All authors speak about Context path.
3. But, Manning publication speaks about Document root. For example, if the webapps directory contains three web applications, like, app1, sampleapp and helloapp, helloapp directory is the document root for the helloapp web application.
4. From my understanding, this is the same as Context root / Context Path.
5. For a servlet mapped to /path in the application with context root myapp:

http://www.domain.com:80/myapp/path/resource?name=value
http://www.domain.com]www.domain.com --------> Host
/myapp --------> Context Path
/path --------> Servlet Path
/resource --------> Path Info
name=value --------> Query String

6. The above example is available on Page 68 of Charles Lyons book, which
is similar to example by Mikalai Zaikin's notes.

7. The above mentioned book also says that getContextPath(), getPathInfo(),
getRequestURI(), getServletPath() etc. are NOT in exam objectives.

[ April 23, 2007: Message edited by: Sunder Ganapathy ]
[ April 23, 2007: Message edited by: Sunder Ganapathy ]
 
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Thanks Sunder for the clarification!
 
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