public String getBasePath ( ) { String docBase = null ; Container container = this ; while ( container != null ) { if ( container instanceof Host ) break ; container = container . getParent ( ) ; } File file = new File ( getDocBase ( ) ) ; if ( ! file . isAbsolute ( ) ) { if ( container == null ) { docBase = ( new File ( engineBase ( ) , getDocBase ( ) ) ) . getPath ( ) ; } else { // Use the "appBase" property of this container String appBase = ( ( Host ) container ) . getAppBase ( ) ; file = new File ( appBase ) ; if ( ! file . isAbsolute ( ) ) file = new File ( engineBase ( ) , appBase ) ; docBase = ( new File ( file , getDocBase ( ) ) ) . getPath ( ) ; } } else { docBase = file . getPath ( ) ; } return docBase ; }
Get base path . Copy pasted from StandardContext Tomcat class