Is there a way to change/configure directory names in JBoss tmp directory

[balind7]

Hi,

we are porting a larger application from JBoss 5.1 to JBoss 7.1.

We have successfully ported several servlets, web services, EJBs etc.

Now we are struggling with some older parts of our application. These parts are using cgi scripts.

The cgi scripts need information about the location of the JBoss 7 tmp directories and their names.

There was a "speaking" sub directory name (= name of the deployed war or jar file) in JBoss 5.1, for example:

\tmp\4sh1f60-nfux3n-h2sp3lfy-1-h2sp5dnl-ap\myapplication.war.

Our cgi applications are using the part: myapplication.war.

In JBoss 7 we have no chance to check the correct deployment directory outside our JBoss web context.

The directory names are even more cryptic than in JBoss 5, for example:

tmp\vfs\tempa4a0bac80f893be1\content-ddd08d456d5e952a

There is no information about "myapplication.war" in the path names any more.

In servlet context we can get the path information using getRealPath. But it is difficult to change our old cgi applications.

Therefore we are searching for a way to rename the last part of the tmp directory.

Anybody have suggestions/ideas?

Thanks

Baerbel

[sfcoy]

You might want to consider adding a javax.servlet.ServletContextListener to your web app that explicitly copies the required resources from the WAR (using javax.servlet.ServletContext#getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String) ) to a specific directory location and using that for your cgi scripts.

This will be less "hacky" and reasonably portable moving forwards.

[jaikiran]

What are those CGI scripts looking for in the tmp directory? Like Stephen says, a better way to do this is to have a specific non-tmp location where the scripts can find whatever they are looking for.

[balind7]

Stephen, Jaikiran: Many thanks for your proposals.

I agree that it would be less "hacky" to move all needed information in a non tmp-war location. Some of our needed resources are already outside the tmp location.

But we plan to replace those cgi scripts with servlets and web services. Therefore we don't want to make larger efforts in changing these old cgi files.

The renaming of the last part of the tmp directory structure would be a very simple solution for the meantime, but it seems that this is not configurable.