Re: FileInputStream in Servlet

bauerg@xxxxxxx wrote: 
Hi there!
I am not sure to be right here at this forum, but:

I have a servlet, which I want to debug within eclipse.
The servlet is reading a config-file on startup, this file is opend
with a FileInputStream(filename), but without a path!

I have defined the Tomcat4 for MyEclipse with different HOME and BASE,
if I set a fix path (i.e. "c:/file.ext") then everythin works fine, but

without the path, the FileInputStream everytime gives a exception:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: file.ext

I have placed the file.ext in many directories, but it never has been
found!

Where to hell does Tomcat search for this file???

Please could someone help me? Do I have to place the file in
TOMCAT_HOME, TOMCAT_BASE, somwhere under one of this, or what?

thanks in advance Georg

have your tried placing the file in the same location as the class that reads it?

Tim
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