Hello,
Why not simply put your resources in src/main/resources and load it
with Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(
path in classloader ) ?
2011/10/11 Ole Ersoy <ole.er...@gmail.com>:
> Maybe if i explain what I'm trying to do, it will make more sense. I have a
> maven webapp project. I'm running it with:
>
> mvn tomcat:run
>
> When I run the webapp I would like to load resources from
> "WEB-INF/resources/...". When running a webapp in a standalone container
> "WEB-INF" is located in the "root" folder. However because I'm using maven
> to run the webapp, the "WEB-INF" folder is located under "src/main/webapp".
> Therefore if I want to test resource loading I need to add
> "src/main/webapp" to the path of the resource when running with:
> mvn tomcat:run.
>
> So for example running with "mvn tomcat:run" I have to load myresource.xml
> like this:
> application.load("src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/resources/myresource.xml");
>
> However when deploying in a standalone container the same resource would be
> loaded like this:
> application.load("WEB-INF/resources/theresource.xml");
>
> I'm trying to avoid having to change my application configuration for
> testing in a standalone container and testing with:
> mvn tomcat:run
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> - Ole
>
>
> On 10/10/2011 04:26 PM, Olivier Lamy wrote:
>>
>> 2011/10/10 Ole Ersoy<ole.er...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I'm running the tomcat plugin configured as follows:
>>>
>>>>> <plugin>
>>>>> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
>>>>> <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
>>>>> <configuration>
>>>>>
>>>>> <warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
>>>>> </configuration>
>>>>> </plugin>
>>>
>>> If I run the following line from a servlet the application is running:
>>> logger.trace("The current root directory is: {} ", new
>>> File("").getAbsolutePath());
>>>
>>> I would expect to see "The current root directory is:
>>> ${basedir}/src/main/webapp". However the result is:
>>> "The current root directory is: ${basedir}". In other words it seems the
>>> <warSourceDirectory> configuration has not taken effect.
>>
>> you should read current root webapp directory in the servlet container.
>>
>> this means if you go with your browser to http://localhost:${port}/
>> you will see files from this directory.
>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts? TIA,
>>> - Ole
>>>
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