How to read file relative to ServiceMix Home

[jmandawg]

Hi all,

Is there anyway i can read a file relative to the ServiceMix_Home folder.  For example, we have these special descriptor files (NOT properties files) that our osgi bundle reads, and i want to put them in the FuseESB_Home/etc folder (or is that the wrong place for them?)

In the code i would like to do a:

new FileInputStream("/etc/desc/myDescriptorfile.xml")

Is there anyway i can get a file reference relative to the ServiceMix_Home directory?

I really don't want to have to have a properties file that points to an absolute path.

Thanks,

-J

[ffang]

Hi,

Use

new FileInputStream("etc/desc/myDescriptorfile.xml")

should work.

However, why not put the resource files into your own bundle? It's better for portable.

Freeman

[jmandawg]

Thanks, i will give it a go tomorrow.  Right now i have them inside the bundle, but i can't (or don't know how) to modify the descriptor files without re-bundling and re-deploying the bundle.

This way i can just stop the bundle modify the descriptor file and restart it.

There are also some other binary files in the bundle right now that i want to move to the etc folder because they are causing the bundle to be very large, and cumbersome to move between systems.

Thanks again, i hope it works.

[ffang]

Hi,

You shouldn't put bundle specific resources into container etc, it might work but it's not a good practice.

Freeman

[jmandawg]

What is best practice?  To put them in the bundle?

If so, is there anyway to modify a file in the bundle without re-bundling/re-deploying?

Edited by: jmandawg on Jun 3, 2011 3:03 AM

[ffang]

Hi,

Yeah, you should put them in bundle as much as possible, during development time, you need rebuild/redeploy, but during production time, bundle is stable and a self-contained bundle is more easy to maintain.

Freeman

[jmandawg]

Cool, Thanks for the help, I'm new to the OSGI world and i really appreciate it.