Not able to read XML file from dependent project

[sanjey asok]

I have two projects in eclipse ,one is Web application and other is standalone.web application has deoendency with standalone ie I want to read some XML file which are placed in standalone application.I configured the as follows
In web application 's-build path i have added the standalone application and in dependency I also selected the standalone project.
When i deploy the application on Tomcat ,under the web application I can see standalone application.

When I run the code the XML file are not read from the standalone. so I extracted JAR from standalone and placed in the LIB of the web application ,now I read the XML files .

Can you please explain why it is not working if I added the standalone directly to web application in Eclipse

[Ulf Dittmer]

What does "the files are not read" mean? Are they found at all? Are there any exception?

[sanjey asok]

yes I got an exception saying file not found

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you want us to help you, then you need to TellTheDetails. Is the file located where the code expects it?

You're aware that web apps don't have a default directory, and that you need to absolute paths, right?

[sanjey asok]

I have a Project “A” (Standalone) which has a XML file called a.XML and have a web application “B” which has a dependency with Project A.SO in eclipse I add the Project “A” in project B using
Project Properties-> bulid Path ->Project

Now Project B has Project A in it.
In Project “B” web .xml ,I have the below code

<init-param>
			<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
			<param-value>classpath*:a.xml
				/WEB-INF/config.xml</param-value>
		</init-param>

Exception I got is

java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [a.xml] cannot be opened 

[Ulf Dittmer]

So where *is* the file a.xml?

[sanjey asok]

a.xml is in jar File is in Project A

[sanjey asok]

please address this