I've been trying to use external entities to split my web.xml file to several parts.
It woul've looked something like this:
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY myweblet SYSTEM "weblet.xml">
]
>
<web-app version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" >
...
&myweblet;
...
</web-app>
weblet.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>excel</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.my.class.excel</servlet-class>
</servlet>
both web.xml and weblet.xml are in WEB-INF (of course).
I've managed to deploy the application, but at the first time I try to access it (any servlet, whether it's the external or "regular" one) I get this exception:
2006-09-20 16:41:56,159 [ScannerThread] (Log4JLogger.java:119) ERROR - The /WEB-INF/web.xml was not found.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\JBOSS\EJBContainer\bin\weblet.xml
at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:94)
at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:103)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown Source)
...(snip)
full exception at
http://pastebin.ca/178615 It looks like jboss resolver is trying the jboss.home.dir instead of the application WEB-INF dir. I've tried all kind of combinations but every legal one causes this exception.
Is there a solution for this? Am I doing something terribly wrong?
Please help.
