Resource Loading from Container Apps

[Charley Watson]

I am looking for knowledge pointers on how to load a resource as stream from within a 2.0 compliant application. My utility class needs file resources that are/will be included in the root of a jar. Any help with this process is greatly appreciated.

My environment: JBoss 4.XX on WinXP,Linux...

Thanks,

CW

[Valentin Tanase]

Hi Charley,

Here there is a piece of code that loads an xml stream at runtime:

InputStream in = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(xmlFile.getName());
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
Document dom = builder.build(in);
Element root = dom.getRootElement();

There is one more side of the story: you need to understand your container class loader architecture in order to play with this code safely.
Regards.