Thanks to both--I implemented Mike's solution (also placed the stylesheet more properly under the web-inf directory.) It worked fine. (ServletContext.getResourceAsStream() is also a good solution--thanks.)
Glen -----Original Message----- From: Kris Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:08 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: resolving relative paths to servet webapp/myapp directory I tend to use ClassLoader.getResource or ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream to load resources. The constraint, obviously, is that the class loader must be able to access the resources. Generally, this means placing resources under WEB-INF/classes or in JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. If you don't care about depending on the Servlet API, try ServletContext.getResource or ServletContext.getResourceAsStream. In your particular case, you'd use: InputStream in = context.getResourceAsStream("/stylesheets/mystylesheet.xsl"); Quoting Mike Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > we do something similar but we use the WEB-INF directory as the starting > point and all works fine > lets say we are looking for "XML/extraction-map-classday.xml" > > the following code achieves this ... > > public final class HomePageAction extends Action > ... > ... > String xmlURI = > this.getServlet().getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/XML/extraction-m > ap-classday.xml"); > > Therefore the "RealPath" to extraction-map-classday.xml = the value in > xmlURI > > if you had "stylesheets\mystylesheet.xsl" under the WEB-INF directory maybe > you could follow or approach > > i know it works for us but maybe we just got lucky !!! > > HTH > Mike > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mazza, Glen R., ,CPMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:38 AM > Subject: resolving relative paths to servet webapp/myapp directory > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm doing an XML->PDF XSLT transformation using a XSL stylesheet. > > > > Programmatically, within my Action class, I refer to the stylesheet > needed > > by using a relative path, with the goal of it being relative to my > appname > > directory off of the servlet "webapps" directory: > > > > TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); > > Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new > > StreamSource("stylesheets\\mystylesheet.xsl")); > > .. > > > > Problem is, Struts appears to be resolving relative paths from my project > > working directory, *not* relative to the "appname" from the webapps > > directory in Tomcat. > > > > To confirm this, removing the xsl stylesheet from my working directory > > returned this error when I ran the app in Tomcat: > > > > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > > D:\myworkingdir\myapp\stylesheets\mystylesheet.xsl > > > > and not this error: > > > > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > > D:\tomcat4.1\webapps\myapp\stylesheets\mystylesheet.xsl > > > > How do I specify filenames in Struts so they will be resolved relative to > > the webapps\myapp directory (whatever I name "myapp" to be), and not my > > (deleteable) working directory? > > > > Thanks, > > Glen -- Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D.O.Tech <http://www.dotech.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
