Question

I’m building two apps that uses commons-configuration XMLConfiguration. Since the apps are related, I’ve build another project, called commons, that has a custom configuration manager that initializes the XMLConfiguration like so:

config = new XMLConfiguration("conf/config.xml");

What happens is that the “command-line” app works fine, loading the configuration file. But when I try to use my custom configuration manager on a webapp (using Tomcat) I get a

org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException: Cannot locate configuration source

I’ve placed the conf directory on the WEB-INF folder, the root folder and the META-INF folder. I’ve also tried with "/conf/config.xml", "./conf/config.xml" and "../conf/config.xml".

The only time I got this to work – on the web app – was using an absolute path.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bruno

Answer 1

Use ServletContext.getResourceAsStream(..), and pass the stream. Or if the file is on the classpath, you can use getClass().getResourceAsStream(..)