Where to save the text file when reading from a servlet

[Ullas Madathil]

Hi friends ,
I am devloping a application which requires a servlet to read text file.I have written the code and it si not showing any error .But the problem when i start my Tomcat server then it shows the text file not found error and automaticaaly shutsdown.I have stored the text file in \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes directory.plz help me
Thanking all in advance
Ullas

[Bosun Bello]

The error is self explanatory. It's just not finding the file. Post the code you are using to access the file.

[Ullas Madathil]

public class GetPageServer extends HttpServlet
{
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)throws ServletException, IOException
{
BufferedReader textreader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(textfile));
FileOutputStream exstufile = new FileOutputStream(new File("STU.txt"));

[Ben Souther]

Because a servlet app can be deployed from either a file system structure or a war file, there is no guarantee that your file will exist on the systems hard drive as a 'file'.

The ServletContext.getResource and ServletContext.getResourceAsStream methods are provided for just this reason. If you use one of these methods, you will be able to refer to your file, relative to the context root of the app.

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html

[Bear Bibeault]

"Ullas V M",

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