There were some questions in the archives about how to write
data from HTML forms to a file on the server. Specifically,
some people wanted to know how to get the path to a file in
the directory in which the Servlet was located. I had
the same problem, and I found that the servlet was throwing
a fileNotFoundException when it looked for the file "names.txt",
even though names.txt was in the same directory. I had a
suspicion that the server was actually running the servlet
in another directory. so I inserted the following code into
doGet();
String defaultPath = System.getProperty("user.dir");
File here = new File(defaultPath);
String[] contents = here.list();
for (int index = 0; index < contents.length; index++)
{
out.println(contents[index] + "<br>");
}
out.println("Directory: " + defaultPath + "<br>");
this allowed me to figure out where the servlet was beeing run
(about 3 directories above my servlet directory), wich allowed me
to create a fileWriter to the appropriate path.
--Monte Glenn Gardner
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