Loading AMConfig.properties and ServerConfig.xml files

Question

Hi
I am building a standalone java application that given a user name it needs to get the roles for this user and then load the permission sets of all the polices that are assigned to the role's of the user.
1 - Connect to Access Manager
2 - Login as Admin
3 - Get AMUser Object
4 - Read User Roles
5 - Create Policy Manager
6 - Get Policy Names
7 - Read Policy Object
All steps are working fine except number 7 as I need to load the serverconfig.xml file but whenever I put it in the config folder I can't get an AMStoreConnection object.
any ideas about how to load both files with no problems or to load the serverconfig.xml file after creating an AMStoreConnection object.
Thnaks

Answer 1

You can use SAX... but SAX is good only if you want to read the data once.
If you want to use the same data again and again then you might have to parse the file again... which prooves expensive.
DOM will take too much of memory and CPU time.
Have you tried using JDOM ? it is a new kind of a XML parsing utility that is quite lightweight and has good api to recurse the JDOM tree also.
check it out at
http://www.jdom.org.
hope this helps.
regards,
Abhishek.