ServletContext.getResourceAsStream() is perfect for reading a file. But what
about writing a file ?
Dom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Padilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jonathan Asbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: *** Referring to a file or a directory from inside a
jsp/servlet or bean ???? ***
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> It all depends on what your code is. I'm assuming you're just using new
> File( relpath ), which should be relative to the user.dir system property,
> which should be Tomcat bin I suppose ( this is all educated guessing i
> tell you. ).
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> Does knowing that help you? Your relative path should then be
> "../webapps/myapp/etc".
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> Instead of getting to a file as such, you really should be using some of
> the file/resource accessors from ServletContext, so that it will be
> relative to the context root so that it's portable.. Look at
> ServletContext.getResource() and ServletContext.getResourceAsStream().
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> fern
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