Creating a folder in web application directory?

Question

Hi
I have a web application which contains some jsps and servlets and i am running it on Apache Tomcat 4.1. The name of my application is MyApp which contains all the servlets and jsps.
In order to deploy the application i have placed the MyApp folder in the 'webapps' folder of Tomcat. Now in one of my servlets i.e. 'DirectoryCreator', i am trying to create a folder i.e. 'Directory' in the MyApp folder. The problem is that i dont want to give an absolute path to the File class constructor. The class files of my servlets are in classes folder i.e. MyApp \ Web-INF \ classes.
I have tried:
File f = new File("/Directory");
f.mkdir();
but this creates the Directory folder in my C drive.
Please tell me how i can avoid giving the absolute path.
Thanks.

Answer 1

if the code to create the directory is a servlet, you can use
String path=getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
//getRealPath("/") will return the actual path on your machine of the base directory
//of the webapp. getRealPath("/SomeDirectory/SomeFile") will return the real
//path of SomeFile
File f=new File(path + "/Directory");
if(!f.exists())
    f.mkdir();if the code is in a .jsp file simple replace getServletContext(). with application.