How to find out or where to specify path of the JavaEE project?

Question

I develop Java EEapplication and I have to create some files in the src folder in the my application. But I dont where or how to specify the path. I want my application to be portable. It means just to say TestProject/src/.... and not C:/bla/bla/TestProject/src/...

do we specify this in some app file like web.inf, meta-inf or its just some trick.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If its is a web application, you can find out the location of the temporary directory then create your files there. Eg

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
   throws Exception {

   File f = (File)getServletContext().getAttribute("javax.servlet.context.tempdir");
   if (f != null) {
     // Do something with f
   } else {
     // We don't have a temporary directory. Fall back to a preconfigured directory 
     // from web.xml <init-param>
   }
}

See this.