Why the output is not getting printed in the File named EmailList.txt under WEB-INF folder from Servlet

Question

Here is the my servlet class that is responsible to get the data from the HTML page and store that data in EmailList.txt file placed under WEB-INF directory:

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Answer 1

Right click on the file in eclipse an go to properties, you'll see that this is a different file.

Actually you should not try to write/create a file in such a location. Your application may not always be unpacked from a .war archive, in which case ServletContext#getRealPath() will return null.

An alternative would be to define a context init parameter in your web.xml and set a root for the file system that should be visible to your application

<context-param>
    <param-name>fsroot</param-name>
    <param-value>E:\CodePractice</param-value>
</context-param>

and to retrieve it anywhere (servlets/JSPs) in your application you can use ServletContext#getInitParameter(java.lang.String):

String path = getServletContext().getInitParameter("fsroot");