I have a web archive with a file placed in the WEB-INF directory.
How do I load that file in a java class?
I know I can put it in the classes directory and load it from there. It would just be put it in WEB-INF.
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A:
use the getResourceAsStream() method on the ServletContext object, e.g.
servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myfile");
How you get a reference to the ServletContext depends on your application... do you want to do it from a Servlet, from a JSP?
If you're inside a Servlet object, then call getServletConfig().getServletContext(). If you're in JSP, I think you can just refer to the servletContext variable, it's automatically there.
skaffman
2009-07-10 08:46:22
If you are inside Servlet, you can directly use getServletContext(). :)
Adeel Ansari
2009-07-10 09:20:30
Ah yes, good point.
skaffman
2009-07-10 09:22:22
You can also reach to the servletContext from request->session->servletContext. In case, all you have is a request object.
Adeel Ansari
2009-07-10 09:23:24
A:
Your classes directory is the default home directory of the application, and the first place it looks for files. I haven't touched this stuff for a while, but I think you can either include ".." in the application's classpath argument, or just access the file as "../myfile".
Yuval
2009-07-10 09:14:09
I think this makes for a solution, but seems rather hacked. The accepted answer should solve the problem far better.
Urs Reupke
2010-10-20 08:59:26