Reading sessions and descriptors outside of classpath

Question

Hello all,
IHAC who wants to read the sessions.xml and descriptors xml files from a designated location outside of the classpath. TopLink usually reads the sessions and descriptors using class loaders, but that is not what customer is looking for.
How can a TopLink runtime read those files using absolute paths such as C:\descriptors\toplink\sessions.xml ?
And, also, inside the sessions.xml is the location of the project xml (deployment descriptor). Can that location also be expressed using absolute path (ex. C:\descriptors\toplink\HR\toplink-deployment-descriptor.xml) ?
Any information is welcomed

Answer 1

Doug,
Thanks for the info.
I tried to read the sessions.xml file using XMLLoader using the absolute path,
but I'm not sucessful with it.
What I tried is:
// acquire toplink session & deployment descriptor
SessionManager manager = new SessionManager();
XMLLoader loader = new XMLLoader("C:/descriptor/META-INF/sessions.xml");
session = (ServerSession)manager.getSession(loader, "sampleSession", Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
which yields it cannot find the sessions.xml resource.
Can you please point out any sample codes or the way to do it in your reply?
I know that you're very busy, I'd be much appreciated if you could help me and my customer.
Thank You.