How to access extern files from a servlet

Question

Greetings,
I am using the 90-days-trial Version of SAP Web AS 6.40 and the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.
I have created a HTTP Servlet that reveives a XML-file. Now I want to parse and validate this file. The class that I have created to validate this file works fine and also the communication with the servlet does not make any problems.
The problem I have is that I have to use three .xsd files to validate the xml-content. When I use the absolute path to define the location of these three files (on my hard disk), everything works fine. But I did not yet find the right location where to place the xsd files to make them accessible using a relative path.
I already tried to place the files in deifferent locations, and I also created a .jar containing these xsd files, I deployed it and created a reference in the .ear, but this does not work neither.
I would be very grateful if you could give me a hint where to place these files.
Thank you very much in advance.
Bye,
    Nadine

Answer 1

Hi Nadine,
assuming that your validation class is located in package "de.nadine.validation", then the source (and class) directory structure has to look like this:
de
|-nadine
..|-validation
....|-Validation.java
....|-schema.xsd
If you then use
URL schemaURL = de.nadine.validation.Validation.class.getResource("schema.xsd");
this will work, definitely.
Hope that helps.
Regards
Stefan