Files in WEB-INF/classes or lib are directly accessible to the App at the
runtime. I dont think you have to hardcode paths in your App. If at all you
want to, you can always use "application.installdir" or something on those
lines at run time to determine which dir the App is located at.

May be I am not clear with the issue
Dexthor.

"Sai Kumar" wrote in message
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> Hi!
> This is pretty urgent.I want to know what is the best way to set
> relative paths in WAS 5.0
> My Web app (War) has an xml file and xsd file. I want to give a
> relative
> path in the Schemal location . Giving just the name of the xsd file in the
> same directory or giving '.\' before the file name doesn't work and WAS is
> always looking at its startup directory something like
> C:\Progra~1\wsad\5.1.1\ but i want to give relative to my WAR or EAR.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sai
>
>