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If in a JSP page I create a new file only giving it's name, it's created in the /bin directory of TOMCAT folder, rather in the same folder of the .jsp.

I'm not sure why this happens, seems to be not intuitive.

makakko
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It's definitely intuitive, as the current directory of the running process is the bin folder.

You can try something like:

ServletContext context = session.getServletContext();
String realContextPath = context.getRealPath(request.getContextPath());
Anon
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    It's not quite that simple. The working directory will be whatever directory Tomcat was started from, not necessarily Tomcat's bin directory. If I go to Tomcat's root directory (i.e. the directory containing bin) and run "bin/startup.sh", the working directory will be Tomcat's root directory. – haydenmuhl Aug 15 '11 at 06:39