thanx guys! sorry, in the future i will try to exhaust later versions
before i post... ;)
> It also looks a totally different place -- inside /WEB-INF/classes or
> inside JAR files under /WEB-INF/lib.
true! however, my purpose was to create a singleton wrapper for access
to resources by non-servlet classes which might deployed inside OR
outside a container. by *not* explicitly using ClassLoader, i can make
the wider scope (of the entire webapp's directory structure) available
to the non-servlet classes when used in that environment. that said,
the more similarly these methods behave, the less work i have to do. ;)
in response to Amy:
> What did you get instead of null when there's no resource at that path?
a file: url that reflects the path i asked for, even though the resource
doesn't exist. were i to getResourceAsStream(), it would be empty.
as Craig indicated, i think the solution is to move our development up
to a later version of Tomcat.
