Question

I have different XML-files in my ‘src/main/recources’ folder, and I’d like to read them from my webapplication.

File f = new File("file1.xml");
f.getAbsolutePath();

The code gets invoked inside a WebService, and this prints out ‘C:\Users\Administrator’ when I look inside the Tomcat-server-output. My current solution is to put the ‘file1.xml’-documents outside of the WAR, in the ‘C:\’-folder but this way my WAR is not transferable.

I’ve also tried

    <bean name="webService">
        <property name="document">
         <value>classpath:file1.xml</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

But that just prints out the “classpath:file.xml” without parsing it.

Regards,
Pete

Answer 1

If you are using the standard maven2 war packaging, your file1.xml is copied to the directory WEB-INF/classes within your warfile.

You can access this file via the classpath.

URL resourceUrl = URL.class.getResource("/WEB-INF/classes/file1.xml");
File resourceFile = new File(resourceUrl.toURI());