How to give relative path in web.xml?

Question

Hi All,
Im creating a servlet which has to load the properties file.
I don't want to give the location of the properties file as ABSOLUTE PATH. But I'm unable to provide the same as RELATIVE PATH.
When I give the path is given as ABSOLUTE PATH (drive:/dir/) it is working. But if I give the RELATIVE PATH(../), the same is not working.
Kindly help me in this.
Regards,
Kumar Madhavan.
My web.xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
     <display-name>NGT - ASCII</display-name>
     <description>Application for Safety Critical Information vIew.</description>
     <welcome-file-list>
          <welcome-file>ASCII.html</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>asciifiledir</param-name>
<!-- This is the tag in which I would like to
          <param-value>../</param-value>
     </context-param>
</web-app

Answer 1

Hi.
Exclude the directory path from the <param-value/> in
the web.xml and just keep the property file name.
Place the property file in the classpath and load it
like this from the servlet:
Properties props = new Properties();
String propFileName = "" // Read param-value from web.xml
try {
InputStream is = TheServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(propFileName);
props.load(is);
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Prop file not in classpath!");
/Jesper