Easy.. you were close to the magic incantation:
s.getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/myfiles/xyz.dat");
Mike
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Brett G. Palmer wrote:
> What is the best way to read a file from a Context in Tomcat? I know I
can
> get the context path from the "getContextPath()" method, but most file
> stream APIs require a full path. There most be a clean way to accomplish
> this without hard coding any directory path info.
I've used the following in the past, where s is a ServletConfig object
ServletContext sc = s.getServletContext();
String fullPath = sc.getRealPath("") + "WEB-INF/myfiles/xyz.dat"
Kevin Sangeelee
Software Developer
Corpfin Ltd
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