Hey again, thanks for your replies. I just want to read the resource file and I tried the getResource() method, it can't find the resource though. When I get the absolute path of the context, I receive the file structure where the tomcat is installed. But does tomcat internally have the same file structure? (i.e. local tomcat installed on C:\progs\tomcat - ist it correct that tomcat internally tries to retrieve the wanted file from C:\progs\tomcat\... ?) I really tried a lot. I thought the problems arise because I have a windows-tomcat the file structure uses the wrong slashes (so I tried using "\\" instead of "/" - did not work). So to make it really clear: 1. i have a local tomcat installed on windows 2. i have an image deployed on that tomcat on .../webapps/test/WEB-INF/graphics/test.gif
question: how can a deployed class on the server correctly read the image that resides on the same server? thanks again for your help and patience, regards, thorsten David Smith-2 wrote: > > This is per the spec which explicitly states that the method > getRealPath() will return null if the webapp is executed from an > unexpanded .war file. I believe it's even in the docs for the servlet > api. If however your effort is in just reading the resource, there are > other methods which work regardless of being in a .war file or not -- > getResource( path ) and getResourceAsStream( path ). > > > --David > > Mark Miller wrote: >>> , >>> you could use ServletContext.getRealPath( ). That will return the >>> absolute path to the file, but only if the webapp isn't packed up as >>> .war. >>> >>> --David >>> >>> >> Why is this the case? Doesn't Tomcat extract to war to a webapp/warname >> folder when it first accesses it? >> >> - Mark >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/load-files-on-tomcat-tf2438873.html#a6877475 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
