get absolute path to apache webcontents folder from a java class file [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you have a javax.servlet.ServletContext you can call:

servletContext.getRealPath("/images/imagetosave.jpg")

to get the actual path of where the image is stored.

ServletContext can be accessed from a javax.servlet.http.HttpSession.

However, you might want to look into using:

servletContext.getResource("/images/imagetosave.jpg")

or

servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/images/imagetosave.jpg")