Question

I have web application that runs on tomcat. I would like to put some resources in

resources.jar

e.g.

configuration.xml

But when I try:

  new File("/conf/configuration.xml")

it didn’t found.

May be I should configure path in another way?

Answer 1

When running in a web application, you should use the ContextClassLoader:

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("/conf/configuration.xml");

or

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/conf/configuration.xml");

The first one will return a URL, the second one an InputStream.