Mysterious File

Question

Hello,
I'm writing a simple servlet which should read a file.
In the servlet constructor I call readFileBytes() method. The problem is that the file created with new File("corejava.zip") is shown to be empty while when created with new File("C:\\Tomcat 4.1\\corejava.zip") is of the length it is. When constructor is called Tomcat console prints
file.exists() = true
file.length() = 0
file.getAbsolutePath() = C:\Tomcat 4.1\corejava.zip
file.canRead() = true
file.canWrite() = true
myFile.exists() = true
myFile.length() = 1661964
myFile.getAbsolutePath() = C:\Tomcat 4.1\corejava.zip
myFile.canRead() = true
myFile.canWrite() = true
    public void readFileBytes() {
        try {
            fileByteArray = getBytesFromFile(new File("corejava.zip"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();  //todo catch
    public static byte[] getBytesFromFile(File file) throws IOException {
        System.out.println("file.exists() = " + file.exists());
        System.out.println("file.length() = " + file.length());
        System.out.println("file.getAbsolutePath() = " + file.getAbsolutePath());
        System.out.println("file.canRead() = "+file.canRead());
        System.out.println("file.canWrite() = "+file.canWrite());
        // create file with path constructor
        System.out.println("----------------------");
        File myFile = new File("C:\\Tomcat 4.1\\corejava.zip");
        System.out.println("myFile.exists() = " + myFile.exists());
        System.out.println("myFile.length() = " + myFile.length());
        System.out.println("myFile.getAbsolutePath() = " + myFile.getAbsolutePath());
        System.out.println("myFile.canRead() = "+myFile.canRead());
        System.out.println("myFile.canWrite() = "+myFile.canWrite());In my Tomcat server user.dir is default C:\Tomcat 4.1, corejava.zip is absolutely normal file.

Answer 1

Thanks for the link. I will have to use different technic to read my file, but anyway I don't understand what is the difference between the File objects in my code.
File workDirFile = new File(".");
        System.out.println("workDirFile.getAbsolutePath() = "+workDirFile.getAbsolutePath());prints workDirFile.getAbsolutePath() = C:\Tomcat 4.1\.
Seems to be OK.
The strangest thing is that both File objects exist and have the save path, but one has 0 length.