Best practice to build up the testing framework as web application

Hello everyone,

I am new to javaworold as well as jave. Currently, I am building up the automation testing framework by J2SE. Right now, it works fine, the framework can run the test suite, update the test suite by using git, and load the necessary files to verify the result successfully. However, it just runs locally.

My idea is that I want to extend this framework as web application. So, I can access this framework from internet. At the front end, I can select which test suite I want to run and to see the report. And, the back end will process the request and run the automation testing framework, and generate the report.

My question is that I am not sure how to deal with the issue of file path, since right now, it's just at local machine.

I would like to use struts to implement the web application.

Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks a lot for any help.