classpath:repository.xml (No such file or directory) - Tomcat / Spring / Jackrabbit error

[Grace Green]

I am using Tomcat 7 with Eclipse Luna to run a Spring based web app which also uses Jackrabbit. In Spring's application-context.xml file, I have defined a Jackrabbit repository's reference with

<bean id="repository" class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.TransientRepository">
        <constructor-arg index="0" ref="config" />
    </bean> 
<bean id="config" class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.config.RepositoryConfig" factory-method="create">
       <constructor-arg index="0" value="classpath:repository.xml"/>
       <constructor-arg index="1" value="#{configSettings.repositoryHome}" />
    </bean>

repository.xml is in the same folder as application-context.xml.

Tomcat throws
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/classpath:repository.xml (No such file or directory)


It is as if "classpath:repository.xml" were interpreted as a directory path, and not as a Spring's resource string.

<constructor-arg index="0" value="classpath:repository.xml"/>

Is this an issue with Eclipse ? Do I need to specify anything in its .ini ?
Or with Tomcat or with Spring ?


I also tried to deploy the .war in the standalone tomcat server, and take eclipse out of the equation.

I got the same:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /mypathtoApache/apache-tomcat-6.0.41/bin/classpath:repository.xml (No such file or directory)

It is as if "classpath" were interpreted as part of the dirname, not as a resource string.

Any help ?

[Grace Green]

This works, notice without "classpath:"

<bean id="repositoryLocation"  class="org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource">
         <constructor-arg value="repository.xml"/>
    </bean>
    
	 <bean id="repository" class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.TransientRepository">
        <constructor-arg index="0" ref="config" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="config" class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.config.RepositoryConfig" factory-method="create">
       <constructor-arg index="0" value="#{repositoryLocation.getInputStream()}"/>
       <constructor-arg index="1" value="#{configSettings.repositoryHome}" />
    </bean>

That assumes that repository.xml is in the same location, i.e. WEB-INF as the Spring's application context xml file.
If I replace
<constructor-arg value="repository.xml"/>
with
<constructor-arg value="classpath:repository.xml"/>

there is an error stating that classpath:repository.xml cannot be found ...

ANyone can explain why ?

[Gamini Sirisena]

Check the API docs here for ClassPathResource

It says

Parameters:
path - the absolute path within the class path