Yes, that did it. Thanks.
(Actually, it was marginally different since all the functions
in Configuration were static, so this. doesn't work. I just
opened the inputstream in ConfigurationServlet and passed it in.)
Putting the file in WEB-INF/classes/data/config/stock.properties
did _not_ work, but I have no idea why.
Clark
> Jeff Greif wrote:
>
> If you read the properties file using the stream produced by the
method
> ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream
> the file will be found in the jar if the jar is in the classpath used
by
> the ClassLoader.
>
> Thus,
> Configuration conf = ....
> InputStream stream = conf.getClass().getClassLoader()
> .getResourceAsStream("data/config/stock.properties");
> should give the stream you need (or this.getClass().... if used inside
> the constructor of Configuration).
>
> Jeff
>
> Clark Dorman wrote:
>
> >My web service needs to read a properties file but cannot find it.
The
> >properties file is currently in the jar containing the web service,
so
> >the jar contains things like:
> >
> > com.ncc.wrap.Configuration.class
> > ....
> > com.ncc.wrap.StockService.class
> > ...
> > data/config/stock.properties
> >
> >The Configuration class reads the properties and the StockService
class
> >uses them. When I run it as a normal jar, Configuration can find the
> >properties file (the jar is in the classpath), but running under
Axis, I
> >get an exception that it cannot find the properties file. How do I
tell
> >Configuration to find the file? The error I get in Tomcat's log is:
> >
> >com.ncc.wrap.WRAPException: Unable to open file:
> >data/config/stock.properties
> > at com.ncc.wrap.Configuration.initialize(Configuration.java:160)
> >
> >
> >I have tried to use a servlet to help. The ConfigurationSerlet.java
> >class has a function:
> >
> > public void init()
> > {
> > ServletContext sc = getServletConfig().getServletContext();
> > try
> > {
> > Configuration.initialize(sc);
> > }
> > catch (Exception ex)
> > {
> > ex.printStackTrace();
> > }
> > }
> >
> >and I add to the Axis web.xml the following:
> >
> >
> > <servlet>
> > <servlet-name>WRAPConfiguration</servlet-name>
> >
<servlet-class>com.ncc.wrap.ConfigurationServlet</servlet-class>
> > <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
> > </servlet>
> >
> >and change Configuration.java to include a function that takes a
servlet
> >context in the initialization:
> >
> > String resource = "/" + DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE;
> > InputStream is = sc.getResourceAsStream( resource );
> >
> > logger.info(" input stream was: " + is + ". Resource
was: "
> >+ resource);
> > logger.info("servlet context" + sc );
> >
> > wrapProperties.load(is);
> >
> >However, the problem with this is that the InputStream 'is' is null.
> >I've tried lots of variations but no luck.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Clark
> >
