Read a file resource in servlet

Question

Hello,
I try to read a file ressource in a Servlet with following statements:
ServletContext ServCont = this.getServletContext();
String strConfFile = ServCont.getRealPath("/xml/config.xml");
With Tomcat5.5 it works, but with Bea 9.1 I get null.
I tried also read from a system ressource:
String strConfFile1 = System.getProperty("PTSHISTWeb.conFile");
but I don't know where to declare the property in Bea9.
Can anybody help?
Best regards
Peter

Answer 1

getRealPath can return null if the resource is in an archived WAR. Can you use getResourceAsStream instead?
You can declare system properties with -D flags on the java command-line you use to boot a server.
Of if you wanted to do it in code, you could run a startup class which is configured to run before application deployment and call System.setProperty there.
-- Rob
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