use existing sqlite database in java webapp - java

I have a java web app. I need to point to an existing sqlite database that I have in the project root (in eclipse).
I have all of the required drivers/jars.
The problem is that code to select from my sqlite database tables runs against a newly created database. I get an error that my table "Table1" doesn't exist. I believe this is because a new database is being created as opposed to using the existing sqlite database in the root with the tables and data that I need.
Does anyone know how I can force this local sqlite database to be used?

Per the SQLite docs, a new database will be created by default if it doesn't find an existing one -- so the most likely explanation is that the path in your connection string isn't pointing to your pre-existing database.
See the question here about relative paths in web apps: if your web-app is a servlet, use ServletContext.getResource to get the path to your database to use in the connection string. So, if your existing database is in /WEB-INF:
ServletContext.getResource("/WEB-INF/my.db");

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How could we convert SQLite database to a Realm database?
Is there any way to use pre-populated databases with Realm on Android?
Currently there is no way to automatically convert a SQLite database to a Realm database, you would have to manually read all data from the SQLite database and insert them into Realm.
An alternative could be the Realm browser that might make this easier, but it is currently available for MacOS X only. You can read more here: https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues/435
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I have a third party tool that I want to detect right away that the database is missing, instead of creating the empty database. I cannot change the tool itself, but only configure it. Not getting any error during database connection gives the application the false impression that the database is there, with all necessary tables. So the application will fail only when it does not find the tables.
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From server end:
Instead of uploading database from url you can post xml or json data
which will give details bout database version and sql query
From android program
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old database. but the new database which you are downloading doesn't
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