Reading from war file

[Kumar]

Hi Guys,

We are facing few problems as regards to reading configuration file (say for e.g.
app.xml) which is inside the war file.
We have our configuration file inside the web-inf/classes folder inside the war
file.
We need to locate the file and use java.io classes to read it as well.
Question is :
When we use this.getClass().getResource("/WEB-INF/classes") method to locate ,
it returns the URL as
zip:<path of the war file>!<location inside the war file>
How should we go ahead and read the specific file using java.io classes ?

Any help on this is highly appreciated ........

Thanks,
Kumar

[Xiang Rao]

Assume your config file is /WEB-INF/classes/config_file, try either
ServletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/classes/config_file")
or
this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("config_file")

With the method you use, you need use java.util.zip package for further processing
to locate the entry you need.

[Mark Griffith]

If

WEB-INF/classes/app.xml

then do:

getClass().getResource("app.xml")

Consider using

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#getConte
xtClassLoader()

Cheers
mbg
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[Thomas Christen]

Is there a way to read/obtain the other properties (e.g. file date) ?

> With the method you use, you need use java.util.zip package for further
processing
> to locate the entry you need.

I thougt that I have no access to the war file itself, so why using the zip
methodes ?

Thanks for clarification
Tomy

[Xiang Rao]

I never use java.util.zip package to retrieve property files stored in a WAR file.
But if the content you retrieve is a zip file, you should be able to get your
property file as a ZipEntry which has a getTime() method to retrieve modification
time.