FileNotFoundException thrown when creating app-context object via ClassPathXmlApplicationContext

[Shruthi Jagadish Rao]

There was a requirement in my project to multi-thread calls made to a Webservice. This is implemented using ThreadPoolTaskExecutor (Spring). As the thread class required values to be fed at runtime, had implemented the code as below -

ApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("application-context.xml");
for (DocumentData documentData : documentDataList){
    MinerThread minerThread = applicationContext.getBean("minerThread",MinerThread.class);
    minerThread.setHeader(header);
    minerThread.setDocumentData(documentData);
    minerThread.setBatchSize(batchSize);
    minerThreadExecutor.execute(minerThread);
}

Issue In local I have tomcat server and this implementation works as expected. However on Weblogic (on the client machine, no access) when the war is deployed it throws FileNotFoundException.

2013/02/06 10:37:34,600 [INFO ] RequestQueueListener - org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from relative location [../shared-common-context.xml]
Offending resource: class path resource [application-context.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [../shared-common-context.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [../shared-common-context.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

In the code the shared-common-context.xml file is in the location - \src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\, application-context.xml file is in the location - \src\main\resources\.
When the war is built (Maven is used) the application-context.xml is placed under WEB-INF/classes folder, and shared-common-context.xml is under WEB-INF folder.

The shared-common-context.xml file is imported within the application-context.xml file (

<import resource="../shared-common-context.xml" />

) and holds the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer bean.


Below is the location where the code gets deployed on Weblogic (the code is within a hidden directory inside a temporary folder)
./servers/Coloris_PPT1_AdminServer/tmp/.appmergegen_1336142780924_documentservi‌​ce.war/WEB-INF/


Could someone please suggest how to proceed with this?