Jsp Absolute Path

This section demonstrates you to get the absolute path in jsp. The absolute
path is the full path that contains the root directory instead of a few
directories contained within the absolute path. The absolute path always begin
with a / (slash). You can see in the given example, in order to get the absolute
path of jsp file, we have used the method getServletContext().getRealPath("/").
Understand with Example
The Tutorial illustrate an example from 'JSP Absolute Path'. To understand
JSP Absolute Path example we create a a html tag that embeded the java
expression. The HTML can be turned into jsp by changing the extension of .html
into absolute .jsp. The following text code is put in a file called
AbsoluePath.jsp. Place the Absolute.jsp into your JSP directory and able
to view in browser.
<%= getServletContext().getRealPath("/")> : The
<%=> is used to embed Java expression in JSP pages
The
getServletContext().getRealPath("/") method is used to get the
absolute path of jsp file. The absolute path is the full path that gives you the
information about the root directory in which jsp file is placed.
Here is the code of AbsolutePath.jsp
<html>
<head><title>Absolute Path</title></head>
Absolute Path is:<%= getServletContext().getRealPath("/") %>
</html> |
Following output will be displayed on the browser:

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