Your best bet is to put them in webapps/<WEBAPP>/bob.txt

Then read them using servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/bob.txt");

This will still work when the application is packaged up as a WAR file.

khozaima shakir wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am trying to read from a file : filename
> Where should i put this file in tomcat 4.0.4 directory structure?
> I tried putting the file in directories:
> webapps/ROOT, webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF, webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes  in 
> each instance i get the error message
> "The system cannot find the file specified"
>
> I used following statement in servlet code.
> bufferin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new 
> FileInputStream(fileName)));
>
> Thanks
> Khozaima
>
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