Question

I’m working with JBoss 4 & Spring. In a web application, I use Quartz scheduler to perform some scheduled task. In a Quartz job, I would like to get the server path Is it possible ? If yes, how ?

PS: Some context
I need the server path in Quartz job, because that job would send emails. The emails contains links to the website my application serves, and to build proper URLs, I need a server path. Hardcoding the server path is a no-no, as the application is deployed on various servers.

Answer 1

There’s no sensible way to get the data from inside the Quartz job, so it will have to be the other way around. Have a global configuration bean, call it ServerConfig or whatever. Let it implement ServletContextAware, then it is automatically notified when a web context is started up.

public class ServerConfig implements ServletContextAware{
    private String serverRootUrl;
    public String getServerRootUrl(){ return serverRootUrl; }
    public void setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext){
        this.serverRootUrl=servletContext.getRealPath("/");
    }
}

Now just inject that Bean into your Quartz job class and use serverConfig.getServerRootUrl() to retrieve the root URL.