Timothy Washington wrote:
> Hi there P, thanks for responding, I got it. Putting my XML resource in the
> 'WEB-INF/classes' directory is actually one of the first things I tried. When
> that didn't work, I tried setting the classpath in
> * i) conf/catalina.properties
Not sure you think that means what I think it means, but bad idea.
> * ii) manually in bin/catalina.sh and
See i).
> * iii) in a web.xml init-param setting
See 1).
> None of these approaches worked either. So what I did was to go back and
> tried a different invocation to get the resource:
> * i) 'MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("myresource.xml") - not working
> * ii) 'MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/myresource.xml") - working
> now!!
Good, I'm hoping that a) I should have spotted that and b) you aren't
still messsing with classpath variables.
p
> Tim
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> Subject: Re: java.lang.NullPointerException loading resource from classpath
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> Timothy Washington wrote:
>
>> * setting the classpath in i) conf/catalina.properties ii) manually in
>> bin/catalina.sh
>
> Setting the classpath is a bad idea, don't do it.
>
> Tomcat sets its own classpath & the classpath for individual web
> applications, any tinkering you do is likely to produce unpredictable
> conditions.
>
> Place the resource in WEB-INF/classes and make sure your class has a
> package definition. Let us know if that works.
>
> p
>
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