what is document root?

[yamini nadella]

is it web application root or WEB-INF folder?

[Anthony Watson]

It's the parent directory of WEB-INF

[kriti sharma]

this gives the document root for the server installation at your system.

public void init()
{
ServletContext context = getServletContext();
path = context.getRealPath("/");
System.out.println(path);
}