Load arbitrary resources outside ear/war/jar

[littlewing88]

Hi all,

i would like to load resources from a class without putting them inside my ear/war. The goal for this is to load files which are relative to the environment and the application (application server / war)

As in this post (http://blog.jyore.com/?p=58), i created a new module and added the dependency to this module inside the MANIFEST of my war.

The module.xml and the resources are placed in {WILDFLY_HOME}\modules\system\layers\base\com\mycomp\myapp\resources\main

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="com.mycomp.myapp.resources">
    <resources>
        <resource-root path="."/>
    </resources>
</module>

In this folder, as a test, i placed a simle properties file named application_setting.properties.

In a servlet I try to load application_setting.properties

InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("application_setting.properties");

but "is" is always null.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks

[jaikiran]

Francesco Calabri wrote:

added the dependency to this module inside the MANIFEST of my war.

What does it look like? Also post the output of:

jar -tf yourwar.war

Also post the directory listing of {WILDFLY_HOME}\modules\system\layers\base\com\mycomp\myapp\resources\main folder.

[littlewing88]

Thanks for the quick response.

In my MANIFEST i have the dependency

Dependencies: com.mycomp.myapp.resources

The war is deployed exploded inside an ear, so i guess I can't run jar -tf for you, by the way the structure is
myapp.ear

`--- META-INF/

`--- META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (empty)

`--- META-INF/application.xml

`--- webapp1.war

`--- webapp2.war

     `--- META-INF/
     `--- META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (the one with the dependency "com.mycomp.myapp.resources")

     `--- WEB-INF

     `--- WEB-INF/web.xml

I don't have any other configuration (such as jboss-deployment-structure.xml) in any other inside the war or the ear.

In the folder {WILDFLY_HOME}\modules\system\layers\base\com\mycomp\myapp\resources\main i have

.

..

application_setting.properties

module.xml

Thanks!

[littlewing88]

Actually my solution works, maybe I had something wrong elsewhere.
Thanks