use basedir system property avaiable in any maven build
new File( basedir + "/src/webapp", web.xml)
-D
On 4/14/06, Gordon Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We're using Eclipse and Maven. I've got some unit tests for a web
> application (war packaging), and I'd like to pull in web.xml for an
> in-memory servlet container (servletunit). I was being really deeply
> and exceedingly lazy and using:
>
> new File("./src/webapp/web.xml");
>
> This smacks of 'the wrong way to do it' to me, but it was sufficient
> for the task at hand.
>
> And it worked fine under Eclipse, but then I went to mvn test before
> committing; to my disappointment, Maven runs the unit tests relative
> to the parent pom, more often than not, so I can't use a relative
> path. After some research I tried this instead:
>
> Thread.getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/
> web.xml");
>
> That gets me no love, though. Am I using the wrong path? I've tried
> several different methods of getting class loaders, and several
> different path names, but to no avail. Is anyone else doing this? And
> please forgive any naiveté regarding Java resource handling. :)
>
> In the meantime, I'm hardcoding the servlet mappings.
>
> — G
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