The best way to get the context path

[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

Title: where should I place the image files

Petr Podsednik wrote: <img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/app-logo.gif" ......     - I know that you often need your own context path in order to return a correct link to some resource in your web-app, but is there not a better way than calling request.getContextPath() ? It seems odd to me to ask for the context path on the request object - I am looking for something like   pageContext.getServletContext().getInitParameter("the application context path")   but I have not been able find out how to make this work...     Any comments / suggestions would be appreciated   R.