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Question

          wls 6.1sp4
          WebApp in WAR format contains a servlet which loads on startup. This servlets
          has to load some properties file. Currently if i have this properties file in
          system classpath. Servlet is able to find. I dont want to place my properties
          file in system classpath.
          i tried placing in web-inf/classes and checked preferwebinf classes. But still
          no luck. when servlet is loaded and trying to find the resource bundle..it is
          unable to find it.
          any pointers will be appreciated very much.
          

Answer 1

Here's my code snippet from my class, named RepositoryManager, where the hibernate session factory is tried to instanciate:
SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
Herer's a snippet of the stack trace:
14:10:12,625 INFO [Configuration] configuring from resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
14:10:12,625 INFO [Configuration] Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
14:10:12,750 WARN [Configuration] /hibernate.cfg.xml not found
14:10:12,750 ERROR [RepositoryManager] 00003: Exception instanciating Hibernate session factory:
net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException: /hibernate.cfg.xml not found
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.getConfigurationInputStream(Configuration.java:877)
The code of the Configuration.class (where the error occurs), which is located in the hibernate.jar under net.sf.hibernate.cfg, is the following:
log.info("Configuration resource: " + resource);
          InputStream stream = Environment.class.getResourceAsStream(resource);
          if (stream==null) {
               log.warn(resource + " not found");
               throw new HibernateException(resource + " not found");
Ralf