In ColdFusion 10 Java integration, app-context.xml cannot be found in the classpath

Question

I have jars and dependencies from a vendor Java library that I wanted to use in my new CF10 environment, however the Hibernate/Spring dependencies of the library conflict with those within CF10 itself.  To work around that, I had hoped to use javasettings in an Application.cfc to prioritize the library with the classloader, but the Spring classpath resolver seems to be unable to find a META-INF/spring/app-context.xml in the classpath even though it is within the jar.
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [META-INF/spring/app-context.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [META-INF/spring/app-context.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBean DefinitionReader.java:341)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBean DefinitionReader.java:302)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinition s(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinition s(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinition s(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinition s(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(Abs tractXmlApplicationContext.java:126)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(Abs tractXmlApplicationContext.java:92)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFact ory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(Abs tractApplicationContext.java:467)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicatio nContext.java:397)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApp licationContext.java:139)
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApp licationContext.java:83)
Can anyone shed some light on why CF can't find this resource?
Thanks,
Dave

Answer 1

ReadPDF rPDF = new ReadPDF();
Class myClass = rPDF.getClass();
ClassLoader loader = myClass.getClassLoader();
URL myURL = loader.getResource("PreviewForm1210.pdf");
String path = myURL.getPath();
path = path.replaceAll("%20", " ");
// Create a PdfReader instance
PdfReader r = PdfReader.fileReader(path);
// Create a PdfDocument instance with the reader
PdfDocument d = new PdfDocument(r);
// Get page count and display on console
System.out.println("Number of pages in PreviewForm1210.pdf is " + d.getPageCount());