How to avoid giving absolute path?

Hi
I have a web application which contains some jsps and servlets and i am running it on Apache Tomcat 4.1. The name of my application is MyApp which contains all the servlets and jsps.
In order to deploy the application i have placed the MyApp folder in the 'webapps' folder of Tomcat. Now in one of my servlets i.e. 'DirectoryCreator', i am trying to create a folder i.e. 'Directory' in the MyApp folder. The problem is that i dont want to give an absolute path to the File class constructor. The class files of my servlets are in classes folder i.e. MyApp \ Web-INF \ classes.
I have tried:
File f = new File("/Directory");
f.mkdir();but this creates the Directory folder in my C drive.
Please tell me how i can avoid giving the absolute path.
Thanks.

What you want is getSerlvetContext().getRealPath("WEB-INF/NewDir").
If you're going to put extra data into your webapp you should put it in WEB-INF unless you want it to be avaialble to be served e.g. html files etc.

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