Jeff Taylor wrote:
> When running a servlet (located in webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes) I'd
> like to open a ascii file (located in webapps/myapp). What's the best
> way of obtaining the current Context -- so as not to hardcode it in? Is
> there an appropriate class/method to call? Thanks in advance!
>
To read file "foo.txt" from the document root, try this:
InputStream is =
getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/foo.txt");
If you want to read it as characters, you can wrap an InputStreamReader around
it:
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
This works no matter what directory your webapp runs in. As an added bonus, it
will also work in servlet containers that don't store your webapp as a directory
at all (for example, if it runs the app directly out of a WAR file).
>
> Jeff
Craig McClanahan
