From a servlet implemented in tomcat/webapps/myWebapp/WEB-INF/classes/my/package/myWebapp.class, I am trying to write a config file to the directory myWebapp/conf. The conf directory does exist; and there are no permissions issues---I can write the file to the conf directory from the servlet if I hardcode the full path.
The following code works:
FileWriter fwrite;
fwrite = new FileWriter("/usr/local/webserver/tomcat/webapps/myWebapp/conf/" + project + ".conf");
// ...etc.
But if I change the path to ../../../../conf/ (making it relative to the class file) or to /myWebapp/conf/ (relative to tomcat's servlets root; with or without the leading /) or to conf/ (relative to the myWebapp directory, which is the docBase declared in the context element in server.xml), I get a FileNotFound (No such file or directory) exception.
How do I make the path relative to the servlet, so I don't have to hard code the path?
The app won't be deployed on a public web server, so writing a file to the server is not a problem, though I would like to have some flexibility about where things get deployed---may end up on a Windows machine, may stay on the Linux box. But I want to make that decision external to the code.
Thanks.
Jerry
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