getResourceAsStream woes was: getRealPath woes

[Jim Lynch]

As I mentioned, all of these systems are pretty much identical.  What I 
didn't include in the source was a test to see if getRealPath was 
working and if not, to issue a getResourceAsStream. It also returns a 
null value.  See:

stream=getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(APP_FILE_PROP_KEY);

Now that you mention it, I believe I've accused the wrong method. The 
getResourceAsStream is failing.  I get a stream on the other two systems 
but not on testing.

Jim.

Tom Parker wrote:

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:30, Jim Lynch wrote:


On the dev. and prod. systems the getRealPath method returns the 
expected string.  On the testing environment it returns null.


I've found that getRealPath returns null when you are running your
application from a war file without unpacking it. If the file you are
trying to find doesn't exist on the disk, then this is an indication
that you won't be able to get it with getRealPath. 

I guess this is because it is too complicated to patch into all the file
manipulation functions to allow access to the packed contents of the war
file.
getResourceAsStream() works regardless of whether the war file is
unpacked or not.
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