Re: getResourceAsStream() problem

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:15:36 -0800
Message-ID:
<hjug0q$20f$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Fencer wrote:

On 2010-01-29 04:11, Lew wrote:

Fencer wrote:

Thanks for your reply, Lew, and you make a dood point. There are
several jar-files in my WebContent->WEB-INF->lib folder, but if I
put my XQuery file in there, getResourceAsStream() doesn't find it
:(

If I could make it work without adding a directory to classpath
like I'm doing that would be even better!


There are already several directories in your class path for a web
app.

Is your "XQuery file" a JAR? No? Then it doesn't go in the "lib/"
directory.


No, it's a text file containing code written in the XQuery (an XML
query language), I should have detailed that better in my OP. That's
why I didn't put it in the lib directory (however, I did put the
Saxon
jar-file there which I use for running XQuery).

The root directory of your application ("application-name/") and
the
 classes directory ("application-name/WEB-INF/classes/") are
already
in your path. Put your resource relative to one of those.


I can't check right now but I believe I already put the file in the
project root but I still couldn't load it. I will try again a little
later.


I don't think the project root is in the classpath. The normal wasy
to make a resource available is

1. Put it below WEB-INF/classes, e.g. a resource named a/b/c.xml would
go at WEB-INF/classes/a/b/c.xml
2. Put it into a jar file, and put the jar file into WEB-INF/lib

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