How to get to a local file in servlet

Question

I setup Tomcat server locally and I placed my text file in my C drive (c:\\test\\myfile.txt).

In my servlet, I specify the exact path to the file to read it. I succe

Answer 1

Place your config file under your webapp WEB-INF/classes folder and read like this in code

InputStream is= 
   YourClassName.class.getResourceAsStream("myfile.txt");

You can also try these other option if you want in JSP.

String myfile=
  application.getRealPath("myfile.txt"));

or

String myfile =
  getServletContext().getRealPath("myfile.txt"));