creating a path from the container root

[Tom K]

I am trying to create a directory below the webapps\mywebapp directory.   I’am able to create directories with the java.io.File(new_directory)).mkdirs();  … (or mkdir())   However, I want to create it under the webapps\mywebapp directory, To do this I need to get a path to the webapps\mywebapp directory so I used request.getContextPath()  which returns the correct path except that The directory mywebapp comes back with a forward slash (e.g. /mywebapp) When it should be a back slash (e.g. \mywebapp)   I’ve tried using the java.io.File.separator to make it UNIX/windows independent but That doesn’t work either!   HELP!   TK