3 Replies Latest reply on Feb 3, 2008 4:06 PM by oskar.carlstedt

    reading a local properties file

    gryffin
    gryffin Feb 1, 2008 1:21 PM

      I'm writing a POJO/servlet based JAXWS web service on JBoss 4.0.5 w/ JBossWS 1.2.1. I'm trying to use a properties files located at /WEB-INF/properties.xml but I can't find the file. The only way I can seem to get the web service classes to find the properties file is to use an absolute URI from C: which is totally unworkable for production.

      Using this code:

      if ( !(new File(propertiesPath).exists()) )
 {
 log.fatal("NOT FOUND: " + propertiesPath );
 }


      This fails, I've tried variations, but can't seem to find the path: 
      public static final String propertiesPath = "properties.xml";

      This works, 
      public static final String queriesPath = "C:/Documents and Settings/tx714c/workspace/NlsAssociationService341/WEB-INF/properties.xml";

      and if I assume that '...\workspace' is my local dir, I can use a relative path. But I can't get a path local to the WAR file to work.

      Here's the listing of the war file: 
      C:\Documents and Settings\tx714c\My Documents\workspace\ShimWS3.4.1>jar -tf gen\NlsAssociationServic
e341.war
META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
WEB-INF/web.xml
WEB-INF/classes/
WEB-INF/classes/com/
...
WEB-INF/classes/org/soapinterop/xsd/ValidationException.class
WEB-INF/lib/
...
WEB-INF/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
WEB-INF/properties.xml
WEB-INF/queries.xml


      How do I access and load a local properties file from within the war? Thanks!



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        • 1. Re: reading a local properties file
          peterj
          peterj Feb 1, 2008 1:35 PM (in response to gryffin)

          You should really place the properties file at WEB-INF/classes, then it should be easy to locate using Class.getResource() or ClassLoader.getResource() [simply supply the file name].

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          • 2. Re: reading a local properties file
            gryffin
            gryffin Feb 1, 2008 2:17 PM (in response to gryffin)

            Well, thank you Peter. Durn if that wasn't wasn't easy once it was explicitly laid out. I'd preferred to keep only classes in the classes directory, but I didn't see any working examples of this so I was stymied.

            Thanks again, Peter.

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            • 3. Re: reading a local properties file
              oskar.carlstedt
              oskar.carlstedt Feb 3, 2008 4:06 PM (in response to gryffin)

              Hello!

              This is the way to go. Never add a properties-file in the WEB-INF folder. A better place is on the classpath, i.e. in the WEB-INF/classes directory. Then you can access this file with the following command:

              Thread.currentThread().getContextClassloader().getResourceAsStream("filename.extension");



              Cheers
              /Oskar

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