I cannot access ordinary file from servlets by giving relative Path

[Pavitdeep Singh]

Actually i want to access .txt file from servlet.
When i give the absoulte path it takes the file .otherwise it's giving the error . FilenotFound Exception . I am using Jrun web server.If anybody knows the answer please tell me immediately as i am executing some important project

[William Brogden]

Relative path makes an assumption about the "current directory" - in a servlet you have no control over the current directory.
Seems to me your choices are:
1. Use servlet init parameters to specify a base path for your working files.
2. Use the ServletContext methods for getting the real path from a application-relative path.
Incidently - "please tell me immediately" doesn't do the slightest good around here - people either answer or they don't.
Bill

[DC Dalton]

I use this code on several websites (Tomcat & Resin driven) for reading content for the pages. I think you will get the idea from it
URL url = getServletContext().getResource("/siteText/"+pageName+".txt");
InputStream is = url.openStream();
if (is != null){
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String s;
while ((s = br.readLine()) != null){
sb.append(s);
sb.append("\n");
}
br.close();
is.close();
}
Hope this helps