Resources are found relative to a particular object - so the jar has to have the file in the right directory tree. i.e., XMLUtil.class.getResource(xxx) would look for xxx in the same 'directory' as the package of XMLUtil.class. (i.e. if its cedar/hepdata/xml/XMLUtil.class the you must have cedar/hepdata/xml/hdom-xml-map.xml)
Typically I put such files in a directory which matches the package some particular application class. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Buckley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [castor-user] Loading mapping file from JAR? Hi again, I'm trying to package my Castor interface as a JAR package, so that several "client" applications can use my object models to access our database. Ideally, there would be no need for each application to have a local copy of the mapping file -- that would be obtained directly from the JAR and hence be automatically in sync with the model. I'm not sure how to get hold of the mapping file from within a JAR file, though. Just trying public class XMLUtil { ... public static Mapping getMapping() { Mapping mapping = new Mapping(); try { mapping.loadMapping("hdom-xml-map.xml"); ... } return mapping; } doesn't work either when building the JAR (I'm using Maven, so have to use "mapping.loadMapping("target/classes/hdom-xml-map.xml");" --- the classes directory isn't automatically checked) nor when calling XMLUtil.getMapping() from a client application. I've had a go at using XMLUtil.class.getResource("hdom-xml-map.xml") but that just returns null, even though the file I'm looking for is in that JAR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.../hepdata-migration$ jar tf /mt/home/buckley/.m2/repository/cedar/hepdata/hepdata-xml/1.0-SNAPSHOT/h epdata-xml-1.0-20061213.131638-7.jar META-INF/ META-INF/MANIFEST.MF cedar/ cedar/hepdata/ cedar/hepdata/xml/ hdom-xml-map.xml cedar/hepdata/xml/XMLUtil.class ... Any suggestions? Andy -- Andy Buckley: CEDAR @ IPPP, Durham Work: www.cedar.ac.uk www.insectnation.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
