Hello Diane,
Diane Holt wrote:
>
> >From the doc:
> <property file="foo.properties" />
> reads a set of properties from a file called "foo.properties".
>
> <property resource="foo.properties" />
> reads a set of properties from a resource called "foo.properties".
>
> What's the difference between a "resource" and "file"?
This confused me too as the docs aren't clear on the distinction so I
looked at the source to get the answer. The file attribute does what you
would expect and loads a file from the file system. The resource
attribute also loads a file but finds the file by calling
getClass().getResourceAsStream("foo.properties") causing it to be loaded
from the CLASSPATH which includes looking inside .jar's in the CLASSPATH.
-Bill Burton
>
> Thanks,
> Diane
>
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