how to get path of web application in tomcat?

[Alvin chew]

hi, how do i get the path of web application folder in java ? i want my system auto detect the current running web application folder , how do i code that ?

i have try

File f = new File("\\WEB-INF"); [B][I]what should i change from here?[/I][/B]
System.out.println("path: " + f.getAbsolutePath());

which result me "path :c:\web-inf "

how do i make it to get c:\myrunningweb\web-inf ?

note: assume c:\myrunningweb is the current running web folder ..thank you !!

[Malhar Barai]

You can use the getServletContext().getRealPath("/") method...the you will get the real path till your context.

HTH
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