Document root of web application

Question

Hi. I'm having trouble determining where a web application is pulling a particular resource from.
I always though that the ServletContext.getResource() resolved it's path relative to the root of the WAR file or the equivalent root of the exploded deployment. However, I have a web application that appears to be running out of a war file, but also retrieving resources from the surrounding filesystem with getResource() Is this possible?
In particular, is it possible to have multiple roots? How would these multiple roots be configured, i.e. where would you specify them?
I've reread the servlet specification and it talks about the getResource() being capable of pulling resources off of remote filesystems, etc. So, i get the sense I'm missing some details.

Answer 1

This might help.
If you put this in the java code, it will print to the console the path that java code is running from. From there, you should be able to go up or down the directory structure as necessary. Note it will print out a different path for your project running in your development enviornment than when its deployed on a server.
File file=new File("");
System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath());