You app is not loaded in the system classloader in geronimo, and almost certainly not in any other app server or non-trivial framework either.

You should be using
getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream()

or

MyClass.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream().

hope this helps
david jencks

On Mar 30, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Cedric Hurst wrote:


I have a utility JAR which reads from a flat file ("cities.txt") which is contained within the JAR itself. This file is used to initially populate a collection in memory. I'm using the ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream() method to retrieve this flat file as an InputStream within my utility JAR class. In Java SE, I can add the utility JAR the the classpath of a client and it will find the flat file just fine. But if I try to deploy this JAR
to Geronimo and use it within a web application,
ClassLoader.getSystemResourcesAsStream() returns null.  I'm guessing
Geronimo is doing some tricky things which involve overriding the system
classloader.  Here's the stack trace.

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:82)
        at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:89)
        at util.cityLookup.Lookup.init(Lookup.java:21)
        at util.cityLookup.Lookup.checkInitilization(Lookup.java:45)
        at util.cityLookup.Lookup.citiesBeginningWith(Lookup.java:52)
        at web.jsf.CitySuggester.getCityList(CitySuggester.java:10)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:79)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618)
        at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:131)
at org.apache.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke (MethodExpressionImpl.java:276)
        at
org.apache.myfaces.el.convert.MethodExpressionToMethodBinding.invoke (MethodExpressionToMethodBinding.java:73)
        ... 30 more


I've attached the JAR file. Is there an alternate means of accessing the
flat file within my Lookup class (without using absolute paths)?

http://www.nabble.com/file/p16384195/cityLookup-1.0-NABBLE.jar
cityLookup-1.0-NABBLE.jar
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