Endre:
You asked:
| Can I access (config) files which resides in the WEB-INF directory?
|
| I have some config files for a "server" I've made in Servlets, and I
| basically wonder what the spec says about files in WEB-INF (not lib or
| classes). I now have them residing in "classes", but I find this a bit
| ugly. It would be cooler if I could put them along with the web.xml.
Absolutely, check out the ServletContext.getRealPath(String path):String method
in the 2.2 API docs. This only works though if the WEB-INF directory is
deployed to an actual physical location. A warning though, some application
servers do not extract the contents of .war files (I believe that WebLogic works
in this manner) and so reading those files is possible only by using the
following methods...
* ServletContent.getResource(String path):java.net.URL or
* getResourceAsStream(String path):java.io.InputStream
However, this would only work in a read-only manner; in these cases, it might be
better to create another physical location (maybe configured as an <init-param>
in web.xml that points to a physical location you can count on being there for
read/write access. Again though, this is only an issue on certain servlet
engines that support .war file deployment and do not extract the contents of the
.war file to a physical location.
Hope that helps, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong or my explanation is
inaccurate.
Thanks,
drumshamen
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