Well, if you are talking about context.getRealPath("/"), that points to the
root of your webapp. If you were to append your "db/file.dat" to that, you
would be looking for it in:
MyContext/
db/file.dat
WEB-INF/web.xml
I assume you want your db file hidden from view so I'd do:
getRealPath("/WEB-INF/db")
Note that this is no relative to the current servlet. It is relative to
the current context. Also note that getRealPath("/") will return "null" if
your app is deployed directly from a .war file and not and expanded
directory, so be careful about this usage.
Jake
At 02:44 PM 9/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>If I have a servlet, say ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/MyServlet, what would be
>the relative path for this servlet. ie: If I have a variable as such:
>
>String myconfig = "db/file.dat";
>
>What is this path relatvie to, would it be the same directory as the
>servlet, thus I would create ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/db ?
>
>Sorry if this is newbie, I have only been using tomcat for 2 weeks.
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck
>
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