Hi Bruce,
Sorry for the delayed response...that was definately a design
consideration back when Assaf originally wrote the mapping code. Which
is why we use URL instead of a simple String name.
We also store mappings in jar files here at Intalio.
--Keith
Bruce Snyder wrote:
>
> This one time, at band camp, Alexey A. Efimov said:
>
> AAE>I've done this in the past, but not with Castor's descriptor files.
> AAE>Here's how I grabbed an XML file out of jar file:
> AAE>
> AAE> URL url = null;
> AAE> ...
> AAE> url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getSystemResource( XML );
> AAE> System.out.println( "URL = " + url );
> AAE>
> AAE>The println above then outputs the following URL:
> AAE>
> AAE> URL = jar:file:/home/bsnyder/java/cptest/dist/cptest.jar!/user.xml
> AAE>
> AAE>Mapping#loadMapping() is overloaded to accept a java.net.URL as a
> AAE>parameter, but I'm not sure that it can handle the syntax above (where
> AAE>the XML descriptor is inside the jar file - notice the bang(!)). It's
> AAE>still a valid java.net.URL...
> AAE>
> AAE>Keith, Aranud, can one of you guys answer this?
>
> I'm going to answer my own question here. Castor can, in fact, load
> mapping descriptors from within jar files just fine. At my day job we
> actually put the mapping descriptors in jar files. I wasn't aware of
> this until today. We locate the mapping descriptor in the CLASSPATH and
> then pass on the java.net.URL to Mapping#loadMapping(). Here is the URL
> when it locates a mapping descriptor:
>
> Loading mapping descriptors from
>
> jar:file:/home/bsnyder/ltp/phase4/rt/ltp-rt/lib/LTP.jar!/com/digitalglobe/mp/order/spec/ECEFTaskingSpec.xml
>
> HTH.
>
> Bruce
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