Accessing a folder within a web application...

Hi,

In my web application,

I have to have a folder where i should store some intermediate files..

Web_context/files/*.*

In the code how should i specify the path..

Because...i tried....it in tomcat and i had to specify it as..

File file=new File("../webapp/Web_context/files/xyz.txt");

But i want to speicify it from the web context and not from the appserver ..

But i want to speicify it from the web context and not from the appserver ..

You've almost got the answer

Look into ServletContext. You will find methods like getResource and getResourceAsStream to access resources in your web application.

But my class is a utility class..which gets called from different classes..in the app and the call to this doesnt have the servlet context passed to it..

Regards

InputStream is =
ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("./files/" +fileName);
bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

This works fine for reading..but what about writing...