Jan,
Thanks for the reply. While I understand what is in the blog, I don't think I know how to apply it to my case. May be I am not that knowledgable on the relationship between URI and file. Let me put it in a more specific way:
I have this in my sun-web.xml
<sun-web-app>
<context-root>/testing-war</context-root>
<property name="alternatedocroot_1" value="from=/testing/* dir=C:/Dev/java/NetBeans_projects"/>
.....
What should I code, in my servlet's doGet() method so that I can open the text file and read the data? And where in absolute path should I put my text file?
I've tried new File(new URI("/myFile.txt")) but failed with "URI is not file:". I've tried new File(new URI("file:/myFile.txt")) but it looks for the file in c:\myFile.txt, not in the "dir" in my property. I've tried new File(new URI("file:myFile.txt")) but failed with "URI not hierarchical ". Please help.
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