How to locate a resource in a Web app in Weblogic 5.1

Question

I am running Weblogic 5.1 with sp10 in SunOS 5.7. I am trying to load
          a resource (a property file) by calling a function like this.
          InputStream In = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/xyz.properties");
          This function is being called by a servlet loaded in a Servlet context
          in a Web application say "Test".
          Actually the same is not called directly by the Servlet but a class
          which the servlet calls instead.
          My question is where can i put the property file for it to locate.
          To my knowledge as per Servlet2.2 specification the resource will be
          loaded if it is in the /WEB-INF/classes or /WEB-INF/lib directory of
          the webapp.
          But surprisingly it is not able to locate the same resource in that
          path.
          If i put the same property file in some directory which is in
          WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH, then the same gets loaded.
          Could anyone please clarify what is happenning here and what is that i
          have got it wrong if any ..!
          Thanks in advance.
          Venky
          

Answer 1

Hi Ramien,
you must specify a path, but this may also be relative, and that means also be empty; for details:
<i>A pathname, whether abstract or in string form, may be either absolute or relative. An absolute pathname is complete in that no other information is required in order to locate the file that it denotes. A relative pathname, in contrast, must be interpreted in terms of information taken from some other pathname. By default the classes in the java.io package always resolve relative pathnames against the current user directory. This directory is named by the system property user.dir, and is typically the directory in which the Java virtual machine was invoked.</i>
See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html for further details.
Hope it helps
Detlev