PLEASE HELP. How do you access properties files in WEB-INF and classes directory

Question

We have a war file that needs to access properties files that are in the WEB-INF directory
of the war file. We also need to load one of the properties files from the classpath.
However, when we deploy the application ( an ear which inlcludes an ejbjar and a
war and the libraries both the ejbjar (with a manifest setting the classpath ) and
war need ) the properties don't get extracted.
In some of our servlets we are trying to access those files with the path "WEB-INF/foo.properties"
and we get a FileNotFoundException. Then we check and see that NO properties files
have been extracted into their appropriate places ( not even those we throw into
the WEB-INF/classes directory ).
PLEASE HELP,
Christian Hargraves

Answer 1

The file doesn't have to be extracted from the war. For example, you can place
test.properties into your app WEB-INF and write a simple JSP to see how it
works:
<%
InputStream in = application.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/test.properties");
%>
It will return you a zip inputstream if you deployed your application as a .war.
Christian Hargraves <[email protected]> wrote:
I try this, but I get a NullPointerException. The file never actually gets extracted
from the war. Under tomcat and resin this works great ( that's why I am having all
of the trouble i am having ), but there are absolutely no properties files in the
extracted directories for WebLogic deploys. only:
WEB-INF/some_tmp_dir/WEB-INF/lib
and then some dynamically generated jor file with all of the classes that would normally
go in WEB-INF/classes ( all except the properties, of course, which are no where
to be found. ).
There has to be some kind of setting I am missing. Please don't make me seperate
these properties files from the war/ear and then put the path to these properties
files in the CLASSPATH, changing one step to three steps to deploy!!
I have found a documented bug where you can't even put the properties files in a
jar file and that bug will never be fixed for WebLogic 6.1.
"Dimitri I. Rakitine" <[email protected]> wrote:
To access files in WEB-INF you can use ServletContext.getResourceXXX("/WEB-INF/filename")
Christian Hargraves <[email protected]> wrote:
We have a war file that needs to access properties files that are in theWEB-INF directory
of the war file. We also need to load one of the properties files fromthe classpath.
However, when we deploy the application ( an ear which inlcludes an ejbjarand a
war and the libraries both the ejbjar (with a manifest setting the classpath) and
war need ) the properties don't get extracted.
In some of our servlets we are trying to access those files with the path"WEB-INF/foo.properties"
and we get a FileNotFoundException. Then we check and see that NO propertiesfiles
have been extracted into their appropriate places ( not even those wethrow into
the WEB-INF/classes directory ).
PLEASE HELP,
Christian Hargraves--
Dimitri
Dimitri