Absolute path & Relative Path

Question

What\'s the difference between absolute path & relative path when using any web server or Tomcat?

Answer 1

Through trial and error I have determined that the starting point of a path in Tomcat is the webapps folder.

In other words if your Java code is trying to read ../somefile.txt then the absolute path to that file would be %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/../somefile.txt i.e. %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/somefile.txt