Nope, I tried that but it gave me a null value. According to the docs, the
translation wasn't performed. Does any one know the reason and any other
way around to this problem.
Nabil A. Malik
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Kevin Jones wrote:
> getServletContext().getRealPath("/") will give you the fully qualified path
> to the root of your application.
>
> Kevin Jones
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nabil
> > A. Malik
> > Sent: 02 February 2001 20:26
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:
> >
> >
> > 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
> > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > URL:<http://www.jlab.org/~nabil/>
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