Read application specific config file

[mrahin]

My application (deployed in JBoss 4.0) requires some application specific definition files that I ideally want to be placed inside the jar file along with my EJBs and other classes. These are XML files and read only once (and then cached internally) using org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build() method. The files are speicified in the standard URL format (file:....). My application can only read these files if they are placed in $JBOSS_HOME/bin directory. Is there a way to place these files in the jar file and have them read off it?

Thanks.

- Mohammad Rahin

[lafr]

Yes, sure !

I have an ear containing some jar's. One jar has file message.xsl in META-INF.

This file is accessed from a SessionBean out of this jar in this way:

InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream( fileName );

[mrahin]

It worked just as I needed.

Many thanks.

- Mohammad Rahin