physical path of Webapp / Reading a file?

[sven abels]

Hi!

I've written a class that uses an xml-file to read it's configuration and it
works
fine in my programs.
I can read my confiuration file by accessing
....readSettings("settings.xml");...

I'd like to use my class in a Web-Application with Tomcat, too but whenever
I
want to read the file, I get the message, that Java/Tomcat searches for it
in
the tomcat-bin-directory.

Is there a way to read the xml-file from the WEB-INF/classes-directory or
is there a way to get the physical path of the current Web-Application in
a JSP/Servlet???

 

[joe zobkiw]

Is there a way to read the xml-file from the WEB-INF/classes-directory or

is there a way to get the physical path of the current Web-Application in
a JSP/Servlet???

I just read this this morning...sounds like just what you need...

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/EJTechTips/2003/tt0626.html#1

In summary: The method javax.servlet.ServletContext.getResourcePaths
allows a Web component to query the container about the resources
contained in the Web archive.