I have had the same problem working with property files in Tomcat and Orion.
My work around was to create a properties directory somewhere at a root
level to all apps. I then place all property files for all my apps in this
directory and hard code this directory into my classpath. Seems to work,
not sure why Orion or Tomcat (or others???) can't seem to pick them up
without hardcoding the classpath.
Also, my experience shows that it only happens when using ResourceBundle to
load properties.
Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: Christian Sell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: urgent: error accessing jar file
> Meanwhile, I found a workaround: unpack the .properties file into the
> /WEB-INF/classes directory.
>
> Looks like a bug to me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Sell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2000 07:10
> Subject: urgent: error accessing jar file
>
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Q1:
> >I have a JSP tag library which uses the ECS library from apache. Both my
> tag
> >library and ECS reside as *.jar files in /WEB-INF/lib. When my test page
is
> >loaded, the initialization code of ECS reads a property file from the jar
> >with the following statement:
> >
> >static {
> > try
> >
> >
> > resource = ResourceBundle.getBundle("org.apache.ecs.ecs");
> > }
> > catch(Exception e)
> > {
> > System.err.println("Cannot find org.apache.ecs.ecs.properties.");
> > }
> > }
> >
> >Even though the file org.apache.ecs.ecs.properties is in the jar file,
the
> >error message is printed out, the resource variable is not set, and I get
a
> >NullPointerException later on. I have this very same configuration
running
> >under Tomcat. However, I have seen previous versions of Tomcat having
> >problems accessing implicitly (through placement in /WEB-INF/lib) mapped
> jar
> >files via getClassForName() and getResource(). Could it be that Orion has
a
> >similar problem? If not, why is ECS unable to read the properties file
from
> >its own jar under Orion?
> >
> >Q2:
> >Do I get any further docs when I buy the product? If not, when is the
> >documentation going to be improved?
> >
> >thanks, Christian Sell
> >
> >
>
>
