getServletContext().getRealPath("/") will give you the fully qualified path
to the root of your application.
Kevin Jones
DevelopMentor
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> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nabil
> A. Malik
> Sent: 02 February 2001 20:26
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Have a question. How can my servlet know that path of my servlets
> directory, when the servlet executes by the servlet engine. Is there a
> way that the servlet engine has can give the path to the servlet before it
> executes it?
>
> I wrote a servlet but I also need to have an InputFileStream in it to
> get some data. But as the servlet engine executes the servlet, I cannot
> give the path as parameter while the servlet is being
> executed. I don't
> want to hard code the path of the servlet directory in my code.
> Is there a
> way that the servlet engine has can give the path to the servlet before it
> executes it(as parameter etc.)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nabil A. Malik
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL:<http://www.jlab.org/~nabil/>
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