You can certainly do this from within a servlet or other java class as far
as reading config file and whatnot, but you cannot publicly serve static
content from there. You could, if you wanted, load up the document into
memory and serve it as a stream via the servlet, but there is no direct way
to access anything inside the WEB-INF directory from a web browser (thank
goodness!!!!).
An example would be:
String contextPath = getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
String myConfigFilePath = contextPath + WEB-INF/myconfigfile.xml
File myFile = new File(myConfigFilePath);
or for a more portable way to read files in servlets:
InputStream is =
getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myconfigfile.xml");
Jake
At 12:03 PM 7/12/2002 +0300, you wrote:
>hello to everyone
>
>can I access a directory under WEB-INF in tomcat. For instance can I
>access c:\root\WEB-INF\project
>(I can access lib and classes directory of WEB-INf indirectly when I call
>a servlet, etc. but what about other folders under WEB-INF?)
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>serdar.
