relative path to load a resource

[Barry Andrews]

Hi All,
I need to load a file in the init() method of my servlet. The problem is that I do not want to specify an absolute path to the file because I want the servlet to run on multiple AppServers. How would I go about doing this? I have tried this approach:

java.net.URL url = this.getClass().getResource("templates" + File.separator + "MyFile.html");
//Then load the file with this url

The templates directory is in the Web-inf/classes directory. The problem is that url is always null, so my file is not being found. There should be a way to do this. Can someone help?
Many thanks,
Barry

[Pradeep bhatt]

barry,
Use this
InputStream lo_inputXmlinputStream = getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/templates/MyFile.html");

[Barry Andrews]

Thanks Pradeep! That worked... Appreciate the help

Barry