How do you get the web application path from the servlet?

Question

I have created a web application which is installed in
/webapps/myApplication
/webapps/myApplication/data/users.xml
/webapps/myApplication/WEB-INF/classes/myServlet
How can you get the path to the "users.xml" file from the "myServlet" file?
The code below doen's seem to return the xml file. anybody knows why?
public class myServlet extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res ) throws ServletException, IOException
File myXmlFile = new File("/data/users.xml");

Answer 1

Try this..
String FileName = getServletContext().getRealPath("\\data\\users.xml");
File myXmlFile = new File(FileName);
hope this helps..