Creating an ImageIcon from an image file in Unix

Question

Is it advisable to use this.getServletContext().getRealPath("") in servlet to get an image file as ImageIcon in the webapp (Tomcat) on Unix?

Answer 1

This is not a solution to your problem but rather a way to debug.
Have you try methods like setting FileName? Checking whether the The file exist?
Here a sample of how you may check the error:
String a="C:\\abc.txt"; // set it to your file format
System.out.println("Create new fiel is "+f.createNewFile());
System.out.println("name of file is is "+f.getName());
System.out.println("path of file is is "+f.getPath());
System.out.println("isFile is is "+f.isFile());
System.out.println("getAbsoluteFileis "+f.getAbsoluteFile());
System.out.println("getParentFile is "+f.getParentFile());
System.out.println("getParent is "+f.getParent());
System.out.println("isHidden is "+f.isHidden());
System.out.println("exists is "+f.exists());
System.out.println("canRead is "+f.canRead());
System.out.println("canWrite is "+f.canWrite());
After which you can see whether can it be read, does it exists etc...
Hope this helps abit