How to get the URI of a file in a WAR

Question

Hi all,
I have a deployed WAR.
One of its files need to get the URI of another file in this war.
In exploded format, application.getRealPath(thefilename) would do the
trick. But it failed if the application is deployed in WAR archive.
What's the workaround ?
Note that I need the full path of the file since I need to read its
content and parse it as XML using DOMParser that requires the full URI ..
Any help appreciated ..
mona

Answer 1

I have a piece of code that does this that looks like this:
InputStream inStream =
<ServletClassName>.class.getResourceAsStream("/foo.xml");
InputStreamReader inReader = new InputStreamReader(inStream);
And 'foo.xml' is put in the classpath either by placing it in a .jar file in
the WEB-INF/lib directory or by placing it in a .jar file that is deployed
with the webapp .war file in an .ear file and then referenced by the
'Class-Path:' manifest directive in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file of the
webapp.war file. Both ways work. I would think you could put 'foo.xml' in the
WEB-INF/classes directory and that work work, too. But, I haven't tried that.
Bill
Mona Ramlawi wrote:
Hi all,
I have a deployed WAR.
One of its files need to get the URI of another file in this war.
In exploded format, application.getRealPath(thefilename) would do the
trick. But it failed if the application is deployed in WAR archive.
What's the workaround ?
Note that I need the full path of the file since I need to read its
content and parse it as XML using DOMParser that requires the full URI ..
Any help appreciated ..
mona