I am using Tomcat. I would like to put the config file in WEB-INF instead of the default root class path which is WEB-INF/classes. Currently I put the config.xml in WEB-INF and use the following relative addressing to locate it:
InputStream input = Thread.currentThread()
.getContextClassLoader()
.getResourceAsStream("..//config.xml");
Is this the correct way to do?
Or should I use the getServletContext().getRealPath("config.xml") first? But I don't know how to obtain the getServletContext() in a .java. (I tried to new HttpServlet for obtaining getServletContext(), but since it is an abstract class, can't be instanced... how can I get the getServletContext()?)
解决方案
The method getRealPath() is not guaranteed to work, e.g. if your webapp is not expanded from a war file there is no 'real path' on the filesystem to a file inside the war file.
Since you say you are using a ServletContextListener, you can get the ServletContext out of the ServletContextEvent:
sce.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/config.xml");