Absolute file path in a war file

Hi,
I have a war file which I have deployed on a Weblogic 7 server.I have a startup servlet which tries to read an xml file located in the WEB-INF folder.I need to have the absolute path to the file so that my parser can read the xml file.
ServletContext.getRealPath() returns null when the application is in a war format.
Would be grateful for any help.
regards
Vikram

I've been using the getRealPath() method from the
ServletContext object to ..
I'm suspicious of the fact that
you are getting a null pointer when you use
getRealPath().
I have also been deploying my webapps to Tomcat using
war files. So without knowing more I'm guessing you
may have some sort of problem with your overall
configuration here...Nothing to do with configuration. getRealPath() returns null if the .war file doesn't get unpacked. The Tomcat servlet engine unpacks the war files but weblogic apparently does not.
So getRealPath() is not generic enough, as it depends on the servlet container used.
Also, I would not recommend the suggestion to use the ProtectionDomain.getCodeSource() method (although it may work). ProtectionDomain is not intended for reading xml files, (wether inside the web-inf dir or not) but has to do with security. It is simply overkill in this case.
The poster should be able to get the file with the class.getResource() method, get a java.net.URL obj out of it, then call URL.getPath() or getFile() (check the URL class for these methods ), get back a path string and call his parser.
The other way would be to simply list that file in the web.xml as an init param :
<context-param>
<param-name>filename</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/file.xml</param-value>
</context-param>and get it with
getInitParameter("filename")

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