Access files in web application

[Lalit mishra]

in my web application i have some txt files how to programatically access those files . ie how to get there relative and actual path???

Does any one have sample code....

plz help its urgent


Thanks
Lalit

[Bear Bibeault]

plz help its urgent

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[Stefan Evans]

You access the files with the standard java.io package.

For help in converting from website-relative path to an actual location on disk, you can use the methods of ServletContext.

- getRealPath(String) - takes a website relative path, and returns you a real location on disk
- getResourceAsStream(String) - takes a website relative path, and returns an input stream to that resource.

[Richard Barton]

// assumes you're in a servlet
ServletContext ctx = getServletContext();

// resource is a filename accessible inside the servlet context
// which could also be in a JAR
ctx.getResourceAsStream( resource );