Re: a jsp question:how to get the web application's directory?

I prefer html:base/ for this. lcl wrote: Hi all, I just have a question about jsp/servlet, how to gain the directory in the file system of a web application? because I want to create a file under the web application, and redirect it to user. Best Regards lcl

Re: a jsp question:how to get the web application's directory?

Cant you just create a stream on the fly and ship it back to the user thru HTTPResponse? In you insist on writting to a webapp directory, look up getRealPath(). -Dan - Original Message - From: lcl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: a

Re: a jsp question:how to get the web application's directory?

OutputStream, seemed very good, but could you give me a more detailed infomation, because I have touch it before, thank you very much. Dan Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cant you just create a stream on the fly and ship it back to the user thru HTTPResponse? In you insist on

RE: a jsp question:how to get the web application's directory?

Try this .. ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(); InputStream is = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(foo.txt); This will load the file from the webapps classpath ie from WEB-INF ... here foo.txt is in