relative file path

[Asad]

I have a JSP located at:

G:/tomcat4/webapps/reportmanager/foo.jsp

Inside this jsp file I have this scriptlet:

<%
File Name= new File("G:/tomcat4/webapps/reportmanager/WEB-INF/classes/sample.xml");
if(!Name.exists())
{
%> sample.xml does not exist <%
}
else
{
%> sample.xml exists! <%
}
%>

Now I want to use relative filepath, but I am unable to do that. I
tried the following instead of the path indicated above but none of
these seem to work:

/WEB-INF/classes/sample.xml
../WEB-INF/classes/sample.xml
WEB-INF/classes/sample.xml

Note, once again that foo.jsp is located at
G:/tomcat4/webapps/reportmanager/foo.jsp itself.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I have a JSP located at:

<http://google.com/groups?th=e958208ee05589#link3>

HTH

 

[Manish Hatwalne]

Try
servletContext.getRealPath("sample.xml");

HTH,
- Manish

 

[Asad]

Try that where? Inside my jsp? I don't believe this has anything to do
with my problem; which was that I did not want to place sample.xml in
the same folder as my JSP. And if I placed my xml file in some other
folder, then the relative path to that location wasn't working.

So what are you suggesting!?

 

[Asad]

You have given me a link back to my own posting!

 

[Andrew Thompson]

in message
Given the directory structure, this may work better..

servletContext.getRealPath("/WEB-INF/classes/sample.xml);

HTH

 

[Andrew Thompson]

You have given me a link back to my own posting!

(chuckles) How silly of me.. It was *supposed*
to be a link, to a post that answered the question
- see my other post.

And please do not top-post..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#netiquette>

 

[Asad]

(chuckles) How silly of me.. It was *supposed*
to be a link, to a post that answered the question
- see my other post.

And please do not top-post..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#netiquette>

And you still didn't give me the link that supposedly solved my
problem! But that's ok. I figured it out by printing absolulte and
relative paths. My servlet was running inside the bin directory and so
I had to move back one step to the parent and then give the path.

HTH anyone else who's going through the same problem.

Asad