Specify a file location in web app structure?

Question

I wish to store several small properties in a file for my web app, but how to control where they go? for instance (used in a class called from a jsp):
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("tempFile.prop");
out.println("test out");
out.close();where does tempFile.prop go? Right now it appears to go into the root directory of the web app, but I would like to be able to dump it into web-inf, or in some other folder in my application.
How do I specify a relative file location in the web app structure?
On most runs of the app, the file is stored in the root folder of my app (the context?)
Can I code relative paths from there, and how do i gaurantee where the files will go?
I have tried several different things, and most of the time the behavior is as reported, but on a number of occaisions, the files go into tomcat/bin. WHAT? WHY? anyway, if there are any tried and true rules on this, let me know.
Thank you

Answer 1

Check out the File class, which can check the directory and file's existance (and other properties). I would simply create servlet that checks/writes to a file in which you can actually specify the path to the file, whether absolute (c:\\..\\..\\kf.prop) or relative (using servlet context to get to the webapp folder and then to various directories below that).
Good luck