ClassLoader in Web Container

Question

I am having some problems some code that loads a resource using:
ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource(resourceToFind);where resourceToFind is the resource name as a String type.
This works fine in when running from a command line, but not when running in a web container such as Tomcat.
I understand that Tomcat has a heirarchy of ClassLoaders, and I would guess, on the following diagram, that I am using the System ClassLoader. So this means it will search also using the Bootstrap ClassLoader also, but not downwards towards the Common or Shared etc ClassLoader.
                      Bootstrap
                          |
                       System
                          |
                       Common
                 Catalina   Shared
                       Webapp1  Webapp2 ...Is there any way I can get an enumeration or something of these generically. I would like this code to work in an app from the command line, but also in various app servers etc too.
I have taken a look at the JDK 1.3 source code for the java.util.ResourceBundle class, as this does what I would like to do, but it uses a native method to get the class context.

Answer 1

Thanks, although one of the problems I have is that it is in a static context, such as:
private static ClassLoader getClassLoader() {
    return ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
}