On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Incze Lajos wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:48:42AM -0500, Allen Walker wrote:
> > What I'm doing is this:
> >
> > java.io.File xmlfile = new java.io.File (path_to_file).
> >
> > Problem is, I don't know how to specify the var path_to_file other than the
> > absolute path. I find the relative path to be /jakarta-tomcat/bin, but this
> > obviously isn't where I wish to place my app config files etc. Coding
> > absolute path's is troublesome due to deployment issues. Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -allen-
> >
>
> You can use the ServletContext's getRealPath( context_relative_path )
> method. E.g.: servletContext.getRealPath( "/WEB-INF/myconf.xml" ).
> incze
>
This approach works -- but *only* if your web application is expanded into
a real directory (instead of being run directly from the WAR file). To
access a properties file within the WAR, no matter what your servlet
container does, do something like this:
InputStream is =
getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/web.xml");
which will let you read the web application's deployment descriptor. You
can use any context-relative path that you wish.
Craig McClanahan
