Use the getResourceAsStream()
method on the ServletContext object, e.g.
servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myfile");
How you get a reference to the ServletContext depends on your application... do you want to do it from a Servlet or from a JSP?
EDITED: If you're inside a Servlet object, then call getServletContext()
. If you're in JSP, use the predefined variable application
.