Tomcat actual path for new file creation

Question

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.

Answer 1

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());