Your webapp is in a different classloader. Webapps each get
their own new classloader.
Use something like this:
ClassLoader loader = getClass().getClassLoader();
Will Stranathan
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:49:29 -0700
"Haller, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a class that loads initialization properties
> from a .properties text file in the same directory as the
> class.
>
> The class resides in
> /TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes/com/company/app/PropertiesClass.c
> lass
> Properties reside in
> /TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes/com/company/app/PropertiesFile.pr
> operties
>
> I have a static initializer in PropertiesClass that
> builds the properties as
> follows:
>
> ...
> ClassLoader loader = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
> URL url =
> loader.getResource("com/company/app/PropertiesFile.properties");
> File file = new File(url.getFile());
> FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
> Properties props = new Properties();
> props.load(in);
> ...
>
> Loading the properties in stand-alone through a test main
> method executes
> correctly:
>
> i.e.
>
> /TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes> java
> com.company.app.PropertiesClass
>
> However, when I use this class in Tomcat 4.0 the static
> initializer cannot
> find
> the file. The class is being loaded but the
> .getResource() method in line 2
> above
> is not working correctly.
>
> Any ideas here?
>
> Many thanks.
> J. Haller
