Store a txt file in war

Question

Can i include a file.txt in war package and read it from servlet classes post deployment? I thow, but the jboss generate the error: file not found. What is the correct path specification?

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with JBoss, but typically this would accessable from the from the WebApp's root directory. Depending on the platform (OS & App Server) other directories may or may not be accessable.
I usually use this little helper class to drop a file in the WebApps root.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.DateFormat;
* A helper class that can be used to mark directories
public class DirectoryUtils {
   * mark the default data directory with a
   * marker derived from the calss name.
   * Usage
   *   <CODE>
   *     DirectoryUtils.markDirectory( this ) ;
   *     DirectoryUtils.markDirectory( getClass().getName() ) ;
   *   </CODE>
   * @param that object from which to derive class name
   * @return <tt>true</tt> if sucessfull
   * @deprecated this is redundant calls may be removed.
  public static boolean markDirectory( Object that ) {
    return markDirectory( that.getClass().getName() ) ;
   * Marks the data directory with a marker.
   * Usage
   *   <CODE>
   *     DirectoryUtils.markDirectory( this ) ;
   *     DirectoryUtils.markDirectory( getClass().getName() ) ;
   *   </CODE>
   * @param dataFileName the class name to be used as a filename
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if sucessfull
   * @deprecated this is redundant calls may be removed.
  public static boolean markDirectory( String dataFileName ) {
    boolean bRetVal = false ;
    String _dataFileName = dataFileName + ".cwd" ;
    String content = "# " + _dataFileName ;
    String timeStamp = "# " + DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format( new Date() ) ;
    try {
      FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter( _dataFileName ) ;
      fileWriter.write( content, 0, content.length() ) ;
      fileWriter.write( timeStamp, 0, timeStamp.length() ) ;
      fileWriter.flush() ;
      fileWriter.close() ;
      bRetVal = true;
    catch ( IOException e) {
      System.err.println( "markDirectory() : " + e.toString() ) ;
      e.printStackTrace() ;
    return bRetVal ;