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try this:<br />
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String ctxPath = request.getContextPath();<br />
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hth :)
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try this:

String ctxPath = request.getContextPath();

hth :)

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Thank you very much. Worked fine!
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Does anyone know how can I read a text file from my JSF/ICEFACES website and put it content in an inputTextArea? <br />
I'm doing this:<br />
&lt;ice:inputTextarea readonly=&quot;true&quot; value=&quot;#{BCad.termos}&quot;/&gt;<br />
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where BCad is my backing bean and termos is the property that reads the textfile and return its content. The only way I found over the internet to read a text file is by using BufferedReader, that needs a FileReader which one needs the path to the file to be read. The problem is that I don't know what path it is in.. neither should know.. I want to give it like a web path in relationship to the root path of the website for example. e.g.: if the directory of the index is c:\mywebsite\index.jspx, and the text file is in c:\mywebsite\texts\mytext.<wbr />txt so I should inform it as /texts/mytext.txt. Or it could be any way that I can give the current path of the website and use it to locate the text file; the way I found over the internet, to do this, is by System.getProperty(&quot;user.d<wbr />ir&quot;); but this give me the path of the tomcat BIN directory.
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Does anyone know how can I read a text file from my JSF/ICEFACES website and put it content in an inputTextArea? 
I'm doing this:
<ice:inputTextarea readonly="true" value="#{BCad.termos}"/>

where BCad is my backing bean and termos is the property that reads the textfile and return its content. The only way I found over the internet to read a text file is by using BufferedReader, that needs a FileReader which one needs the path to the file to be read. The problem is that I don't know what path it is in.. neither should know.. I want to give it like a web path in relationship to the root path of the website for example. e.g.: if the directory of the index is c:\mywebsite\index.jspx, and the text file is in c:\mywebsite\texts\mytext.txt so I should inform it as /texts/mytext.txt. Or it could be any way that I can give the current path of the website and use it to locate the text file; the way I found over the internet, to do this, is by System.getProperty("user.dir"); but this give me the path of the tomcat BIN directory.

Java Web Application - Get the current dir / Read a text file

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