reading application startup files in JBoss 4 vs 5

[jo_atman]

Hello,

We have a slightly modified configuration for our app, that worked in JBoss 4.0.0, but doesn't in JBoss 5.1.0.

We copied the "web" configuration (under JBoss5.1.0/server/web) to create our own setup.

our war file contains a web.xml that specifies a servlet and a properties file that's a parameter for the servlet at startup.

This properties file is at the top level of our JBoss instance.

e.g.

we have

JBoss5.1.0/server/myConfiguration

|-- myServer.properties

|-- deploy

      |-- myWar.war

myWar.war has a web.xml containing the following snippet:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>StartListener</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>com.sabre.common.webservices.server.ServerStartupService</servlet-class>
  <init-param>
   <param-name>startupFile</param-name>
   <param-value>myServer.properties</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

JBoss 4.0.0 had no problems finding the myServer.properties file located in myConfiguration, but JBoss 5.1.0.GA throws a "FileNotFoundException".

Any ideas on what we need to change to get it to work?

I guess the second question would be - what are other (better) ways of doing this?

Thanks,

Nilesh

[jaikiran]

Please post the entire exception stacktrace? And how exactly are you reading that file? Using java.io.File? Instead for JavaEE applications, it's better to use the following code:

String startupFileName=...// get the file name from ENC
InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(startupFileName);

The resource will then be looked within the classpath of the application. So you can either package that myserver.properties within your app or place it in JBOSS_HOME/server/servername/conf folder (which by default is available in classpath).