How do I access a text file from within my war

Question

How do I know what file reference to use to get a file from my WAR.

The structure of the WAR is:

WAR
src
- model
- web

Answer 1

One way to do this comes with a caveat that I'll explain below. You should do something like this:

// In a Servlet
ServletContext sc = getServletContext();
BufferedReader in = 
    new BufferedReader(new FileReader(sc.getRealPath("WebContent/config.txt"));

This assumes that your servlet container is configured to expand war files into their corresponding directory structure.