I have a number of EJBS that handle XML directly. They need to reference XSL and XSD files to transform and validate the content. The XSL's can easily be read from the jar containing the EJBs. In order to reference an .XSD for validation (using SAXParser) it appears that my only option is to reference an absolute path.

This seems like a very bad idea and i'm sure there is a better way.

Where do these files really belong?