Help on creating a ServerSession in Eclipse with XML file

Question

Hi,
I am using Toplink in Eclipse with Tomcat/Apache (or at least trying to :)
I am trying to make the following code work:
Project myProject = XMLProjectReader.read("myproject.xml");
Server serverSession = myProject.createServerSession();
but I get an exception:
{color:#ff0000} +"7099", "The deployment project xml resource {0} was not found on the resource path. Check that the resource name/path and classloader passed to the XMLProjectReader are correct. The project xml should be included in the root of the application's deployed jar, if the project xml is deployed in a sub-directory in the application's jar ensure that the correct resource path using \"/\" not \"\\" is used."+ {color}
- I think the project cannot find the xml file in my project - but I was never sure where this should go in any case - I put it in the META-INF folder but made no difference. Where should I put these xml files?
Any help much appreciated

Answer 1

Simon,
Hi, I assume you are deploying a WAR to Tomcat. The following tutorial on running TopLink using the org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider is pure JPA but deals with the same deployment issues.
In particular note that there are two META-INF directories - we want to use only the one off of src.
"Make sure that your persistence.xml (and optionaly orm.xml) file is placed off of the src/META-INF directory and not the default WebContent/META-INF dir so that it gets picked up by the servlet classloader from the classes directory."
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Tomcat_Web_Tutorial#persistence.xml
thank you
/michael
http://www.eclipselink.org