Loading a file into an InputStream within webservice code

[anacarda]

Hi,

I have a webservice I have created, and it works fine.

However, I am now wanting to load a file (xslt file in my case), to pass it through to Xalan for transformation.

However... I do not know how to load the file.

The main issue I am having, is I don't know where the file should be...

I am currently using getResourceAsStream() function... is this correct?:

InputStream loInputXSLT = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/xslt/file.xslt");

Class is defined as the following:

@Name("myWebService")
@Stateless
@WebService(name = "MyWeb", serviceName = "MyWeb")
public class MyWeb implements MyWebRemote {

I am also using the seam framework, but I don't think this is a seam specific question, so I am asking it here :)

[anacarda]

I can load the file using the following code:

FileInputStream loInputXSLT = new FileInputStream("/var/opt/transformation.xslt");

However... I would really like this xslt file to be located in some sort of resource directory within the jar file... eg: META-INF or something... is this possible?

I tried using getResourceAsStream() as above, however, this does not work...

[peterj]

Try:

URL f = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().findResource("transformation.xslt");
FileInputStream xxx = new FileInputStream(f);

and place transformation.xslt in the base directory of the JAR file.

[anacarda]

Thanks for that, thats what I was looking for :)