Are you sure if it is not looking your properties file in the
classpath of the webapp ?
When you say everything works fine until tomcat 5 is used , does the
console print out any error ? Also how do you know it is searching in
shared classes ?
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:45:01 +0200, Rosenberg, Leon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's a bit OT but maybe some of you had a similar problem shortly and
> can help.
>
> We have a configuration component which configures other components of
> the application out of property files. The property files lies in the
> 'classes' directory of the application. Everything works fine until we
> use tomcat 5 (5.0.19).
>
> In tomcat 5 the ClassLoader doesn't search for our property files in
> webapps/mywebapp/WEB-INF/classes. Instead it seems to search in
> shared/classes which imho should be done after the private webapp
> classpath has bin searched through.
>
> As I said before it works fine with standalone applications and with
> resin.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> Leon
>
> P.S.
>
> The files are there and we have the rights to read them.
>
> P. P.S. the code:
>
> private void updateConfigurable(IConfigurable target, boolean
> dontcheck){
>
> String fileName =
> target.getConfigurationName()+".properties";
>
> log.debug("Checking for "+"/"+fileName);
>
> log.debug("Approx. checking in
> "+target.getClass().getResource("/."));
>
> URL u = target.getClass().getResource("/"+fileName);
>
> if (u==null){
>
> log.error(fileName+" doesn't exist, skipping update
> for "+target);
>
> return;
>
> }
>
> if (!dontcheck){
>
> log.debug("Checking "+target);
>
> File f = new File(u.getFile());
>
> long lastModified = f.lastModified();
>
> long timestamp = getTimestamp(target);
>
> if (lastModified<timestamp)
>
> return;
>
> log.debug("filename has been updated.");
>
> }
>
> log.debug("updating "+target);
>
> try{
>
> Properties p = new Properties();
>
> p.load(target.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/"+fileName));
>
> target.notifyConfigurationStarted();
>
> Enumeration keys = p.keys();
>
> while(keys.hasMoreElements()){
>
> String key = (String)keys.nextElement();
>
> String value = p.getProperty(key);
>
> target.setProperty(key, value);
>
> }
>
> target.notifyConfigurationFinished();
>
> setTimestamp(target);
>
> }catch(Exception e){
>
> log.error("updateConfigurable", e);
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
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