Accessing the properties in another way worked ...
final InputStream resourceStream =
this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("velocity.properties");
Thanks, - Dave
Nathan Bubna wrote:
>
> I would do two things (the first of which, you have probably done).
> 1) double-check that the build process for the JAR is correctly
> putting the velocity.properties file into the root of the jar and that
> the jar is in the classpath 2) try finding it elsewhere in the
> classloader heirarchy:
>
> InputStream stream =
> Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("velocity.properties");
> if (stream == null) {
> stream =
> ThisClass.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("velocity.properties");
> if (stream == null) {
> stream = ThisClass.class.getResourceAsStream("velocity.properties");
> if (stream == null) {
> throw new RuntimeException("WTF? i'm not sure the resource
> is really there.");
> }
> }
> }
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:37 AM, laredotornado <laredotorn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Java 1.6, Velocity 1.6.2. I have a Maven JAR project, in which
>> the "velocity.properties" gets packaged at the root of the JAR. When I
>> include this JAR in other projects, I'm not able to initialize velocity,
>> using ...
>>
>> VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine();
>> final InputStream resourceStream =
>> Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("velocity.properties");
>> final Properties velocityProps = new Properties();
>> velocityProps.load(resourceStream);
>> ve.init( velocityProps );
>>
>> The above dies because the "resourceStream" is null. Any ideas how I
>> reference this file? Keep in mind that it is packaged within the JAR.
>> Thanks, - Dave
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