How to find the root document of my web application, if it is in WAR file ?

Question

Hi,
I want the root document of my web application. I my EAR file, i have only one WAR file. In my WAR file the following are the folders:-
enterprise/..
properties/sql/..
locale/..
WEB-INF/..
Once i get the 'real path' or 'root document', I will use that in my application in no.of times. Path(root document) is used in the following way in my application:-
File emailTemplatesFolder = new File( path + "/enterprise/"+ enterpriseCode+"/EmailTemplates");
If i use getRealPath() method, it works fine, in use Oracle9ias, because, EAR file will be extracted. Where as in Weblogic 6.1, EAR file willn't be extracted, so that getRealPath() is giving 'null', that is reason why i am seeking for alternative.
Thanks in Advance
Srinivas

Answer 1

Yes, that is the corrected behaviour.
What you need to do is to get the ServletContext, and then load the files as resources.
Here is how to load a properties file in the init() servlet method, which has access to the ServletConfig object that can give u the ServletContext.
String classesDir = "/WEB-INF/classes";
ServletContext sc = config.getServletContext();
InputStram is = sc.getResourceAsStream(classesDir+"default.properties");
props.load(is);
Hope it helps,
Liviu