Tomcat and missing XML file

Question

I created a console app that creates an xml file from another class file. Works fine. Now I created a JSP page which calls that class file and creates the xml document. When I read back the contents of the XML file, it shows up fine in my JSP. But I have no idea where that XML file was created/saved??? Does Tomcat store these XML files in memory??
In my class, I create the XML file with the following code:
private static File file = new File("courses.xml");
I searched my harddrive and couldn't find a courses.xml file with the correct data.
Can anyone explain to me what is going on here? How can I create an XML file which doesn't exist on my harddrive?

Answer 1

Is Tomcat running on your computer? Or is it running on another comp?
Just to be sure you know, Tomcat will create the file on the server's hard drive, ie where Tomcat is installed, not the client harddisk, ie the browser.
If you are running Tomcat on your computer and can not find the file still, perhaps some code would help...