On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Kevin Sangeelee wrote:
> 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"
Wouldn't getResource() (or getResourceAsStream()) be the way to go
with this?
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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