Path Problem

[lusujin]

Hi there,
i current have some jsp pages running on tomcat 4.1.12.
This jsp pages reads some data file from a certain location.
For now i can only get the jsp pages to work by specifying the absolute path to this input files.
If i do not, i will have to copy these input files into the <CATALINA_HOME>/bin directory for it to work.

Is there any way, I could specify in TOMCAT to look for these files else where in the filesystem.

Thanks very much,
lui

 

[byam]

You can get the absolute path for the web root in a JSP by:

getServletContext().getRealPath(&quot;/&quot;

So, if you place your data file anywhere under web root, you can then determine its absolute path at runtime.

e.g. if you place your data file, say myData.dat in <
<webRoot>/WEB-INF/myData.dat

then you can determine it absolute path at run time and obtain a File object in a JSP using:

File dataFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath(&quot;/&quot, &quot;WEB-INF/myData.dat&quot;

 

[lusujin]

Thanks very much.
It resolved my problem!!
u da best!