Qiao-
"file:///foo/bar" is a URI
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URI.html
Martin
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> From: bra...@gmail.com
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: RE: application.getRealPath() in JSP from a subdirectory
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:52:30 -0800
>
> Chuck, thanks for your response. It turns out that the auto-deploy switch
> does affect the situation. New subdirs created after the auto-deploy is
> turned off are no longer being treated as separate apps and getRealPath is
> returning the path as I expected.
>
> ServletContext.getResourceAsStream() is fine for accessing a file. In my
> case, I need to list all the files under an image directory. Here is my
> directory structure:
>
> Approot/sub1/test.jsp
> Approot/sub1/images/{image files}
>
> test.jsp needs to present a list of all images in the sub1 dir, thus it
> needs a File object representing "images". I tried to use
> ServletContext.getResource("/sub1/images"), the resultant URL was converted
> to an URI with .toURI() and fed to 'new File()'. It didn't work. File(URI)
> requires an URI with the "file" scheme.
>
>
> Qiao
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:09 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: RE: application.getRealPath() in JSP from a subdirectory
>
> > From: Qiao Jin [mailto:bra...@gmail.com]
> > Subject: application.getRealPath() in JSP from a subdirectory
> >
> > I am using Tomcat 6.0.18, JDK 1.5 on CentOS 5. From within a JSP page,
> > applicaton.getRealPath() is returning results that I wasn't expecting.
>
> Using getRealPath() inside an app server of any kind is pretty much always a
> Bad Idea. If you need to access a file from your webapp, use
> ServletContext.getResourceAsStream(). If you need a place to store a file,
> it certainly shouldn't be inside the webapp deployment area, which should be
> treated as read-only.
>
> - Chuck
>
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