Finding resource files deployed inside RAR?

Question

Hi all,
NB: First-time poster, please forgive any transgressions.
I am deploying a RAR (not within an EAR) to WL 8.1 SP3, which has the following form:
META-INF/
    ra.xml
    weblogic-ra.xml
myconnector.jarClasses in myconnector.jar need to find a resource file, myresource.xml, on the classpath. I've tried placing myresource.xml in the root of the rar file, and in a jar file in the root of the rar (called it myresources.jar). In both cases, the resource is not found; the only way that it's ever found is by placing it in a directory that is on the server's classpath in startWebLogic.cmd.
How can I package the resource file in my rar such that Class.getResourceAsStream and/or ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream can find it?
TIA,
Matthew

Answer 1

A deployed application has no relation at all to a 'project'. What you want is the application to find a file in a specific directory.
In your case you will probably only want to read from the file, so your best bet is to put the file on the classpath (for example, put it in the 'classes' subdirectory of your war) and load it using getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(). In other words, make the properties file part of your project resources.