read xml from JAR file

[Ralf Heinecke]

Hi there,

I want to build a webproject that includes a "core"-application. This core is in a JAR file. It uses it's own struts configuration.

I tried to reference from the web.xml in the main-project to the struts-config.xml located inside the core-jar file
like this:

<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/de/project/struts-config.xml,/de/core/struts-config.xml</param-value>

As this idea did not work I've put the core config file under web-inf in the main project.
Now the config file is found by the application and properties-files defined inside it (like ApplicationResources.properties [messages]) are also found, but the xml files referenced in the struts-config (like validator-config.xml or tiles-config.xml) cannot be found.

Example:

This works:

<message-resources factory="de.core.common.TextResourcesFactory"
			parameter="/de/core/resource/messages.properties" null="false">
</message-resources>

This didn't work:

<plug-in className="de.core.init.ValidatorInit">
	<set-property property="pathnames" value="/de/core/validator-config.xml,/de/core/validator-rules.xml"/>
</plug-in>

Why can properties be found inside a jar file but no xml files ? Is there a way to do this ?

DO1EH

[Jesus Mireles]

I usually have no issues when I use XXXX.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filename) ... I usually read some XML for configuration that may not be in a properties file.

[Ralf Heinecke]

[quote=Lucas Mireles]I usually have no issues when I use XXXX.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filename) ... I usually read some XML for configuration that may not be in a properties file.[/quote]

Yes it's no problem to read other xml files (like the hbm.xmls from hibernate) only the struts-config has a problem and i ask myself why.