> There is absolutely no guarantee that webapp resources even *have* a "file
> path" at all -- it's perfectly legal for the container to run your
> application directly from a WAR file (Tomcat has an option for that), or
> dump your static resources into a database, or anywhere else it wants.
>
> To read a resource file like this, use the following:
>
> InputStream is =
> getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/file.dat");
Yep, was actually cruising the sourcecode and just got this a few
minutes ago. The servlet context has all the nice methods for file
access ;)
> where the path you pass starts with a slash, and is relative to the
> context root. This is how Struts reads your struts-config.xml file, by
> the way, using a typical path like "/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml".
>
> As a side note, placing your data file directly in the context root
> directory like this makes it possible for clients to access the file
> directly. If you don't want this (in other words, if the file is only for
> internal use by your app), you can put it in /WEB-INF instead.
Naturally. I was actually writing a custom taglib to check for the
existence of an asset (graphic file, which is a headshot of a
member) and to use it as a logic:present like tag. I am actually
going to start a new thread with the sourcecode for that.
Dan
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you know everything about it or you are sitting in the creek.
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