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stackMan10
stackMan10

Reputation: 742

How to change the working directory of a tomcat server to WEB-INF of my application?

I have a bean class where I'm using a file that I've placed in application/WebContent/common folder. I have been refering to this file as below

File xsltfile = new File("../common/xhtml2fo.xsl");

in my eclipse, with my working directory configured to

${workspace_loc:enovia/WebContent/WEB-INF}

it worked fine. However, while testing it on a domain-box, I'm getting a file not found exception because its looking for the file in {tomcat-path}/bin/../common/xhtml2fo.xsl.

I don't have access to bean classes in the domain box. So my only option for now is to change my tomcat working directory to WEB-INF.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 845

Answers (1)

Anders R. Bystrup
Anders R. Bystrup

Reputation: 16060

You can read files in WEB-INF using this approach:

InputStream in = Thread.currentThread()
                       .getContextClassLoader()
                       .getResourceAsStream( "xhtml2fo.xsl" );

or even simpler if you're in a servlet:

getServletContext().getResourceAsStream( "/WEB-INF/xhtml2fo.xsl" )

Cheers,

Upvotes: 1

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