how to represent a resource/file in JBoss J2EE environment

[csabaszucs]

Hello Users,

How can I represent a resource, that is a file in a development context based on JBoss AS5?

As an URL class? As a File class? Perhaps as a VirtualFile class? Possibly as something other?

I have a method like:
public __resource__ getResource();

What should __resource__ be?

This resource may be stored outside/beyond of JBoss file system...
This resource representation should not be JBoss-specific...?!

Thanks in advance!
Csaba

[alesj]

URL or URI.