I have a question out on StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11654946/value-of-javax-servlet-context-tempdir-set-by-tomcat-7-not-respected-by-richface) related to modifying the value of javax.servlet.context.tempdir.

The highlights are:

1. Set the value of javax.servlet.context.tempdir in a Parameter node within Tomcat's context.xml
2. On server start up, the LRUMapCacheFactory prints the value as set in context.xml
3. When accessing the value in FileUploadFacesContextFactory.getTempFilesDirectory(), a different value is returned.

Can anyone provide pointers on how to make sense of this?