How do I accomplish relative addressing under JBoss?

[ggraham]

Hello all,

I am an absolute newbie to JBoss. I have been working with a small wireless demo application that has been deployed as a war file under JBoss 2.2.2 and Tomcat 3.3.3 on a Linux server running apache. (forced to use these versions for now)

The war file directory structure is:

wirelesstt.war
|
|_WEB-INF
| |_web.xml
| |_classes
| | |_various class files
| | (mostly serveletts and action classes)
| | I also have a copy of dbproperties.xml
| | here
| |_lib
| |_my jar files (including the ConnPool.jar)
| |_ and dbproperties.xml
|
|_ wireless_images
a couple of image files

I mention the ConnPool.jar file specifically above because this application uses connection pooling and this is the jar that handles it. The PoolManager class in this jar file needs to read a configuratiuon file named 'dbproperties.xml' which contains info about the pools to create, the jdbc drivers, etc.

My problem is this: I need to be able to address this xml file via relative addressing. I do not seem to be able to do this.

Here is the section of code from PoolManager that is trying to open the URL to the properties file:

String urlstr = "/lib/dbproperties.xml";
String linein = "";
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
URL myURL = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
System.out.println("In ConnPool.PoolManager.init()");
try {
System.out.println("attempting to load " + urlstr);
myURL = new URL(urlstr);
br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(myURL.openStream()));
while ((linein = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(linein);
}
xmlStr = sb.toString();
System.out.println("xmlStr created: " + xmlStr);
br.close();

}
catch (MalformedURLException mue) {
System.out.println("Can't read the properties file. (" + urlstr + ") at " + (new java.util.Date()));
System.out.println("MalformedURLException Exception text: " + mue.getMessage());
return;
}
catch(IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("Can't read the properties file. (" + urlstr + ") at " + (new java.util.Date()));
System.out.println("IOException text: " + ioe.getMessage());
return;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Can't read the properties file. (" + urlstr + ") at " + (new java.util.Date()));
System.out.println("Exception text: " + e.getMessage());
return;
}


As you can see all I am trying to do is create a Url object using a relative address and then use this object to create a BufferedReader to read in the xml.

No matter how I try to configure the relative address:

./dbproperties.xml, wirelesstt/servlet/dbproperties.xml, etc I always get the following exception:

[EmbeddedTomcatSX] In ConnPool.PoolManager.init()
[EmbeddedTomcatSX] attempting to load /dbproperties.xml
[EmbeddedTomcatSX] Can't read the properties file. (/dbproperties.xml) at Wed Sep 11 16:56:30 EDT 2002
[EmbeddedTomcatSX] IOException text: /dbproperties.xml

It appears that i can not locate the file.

Can anyone help me with how to specify the relative address correctly? I am thoroughly confused and somewhat frustrated with JBoss as well. This technique works just fine under JRun, and under IIS.

Thanks,

Gary Graham