Reading file from tomcat, outside servelet.

[Ranban Smith]

Hi,
I am working on a tomcat application, in which there is a Spring bean which is declared like

<bean name="PleskXMLInputs" class="<FULLY_QUALIFIED_CLASS_NAME>"
depends-on="registered_shared_ServiceLayersCache">
<property name="slCacheIdentifier" ref="..."/>
</bean>

The xml files containing the declarations are declares included in the web.xml, as follows:

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
classpath:/spring_context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

Now the above mentioned bean is used somewhere in the web application. The class does not extend servlet, so I can't use the getServletContext() approach. Is there any way I can read a properties file placed somewhere inside the web application (WEB-INF,WEB-INF/classes, META-INF - anywhere is fine) from inside the bean class?

[Tim Holloway]

WEB-INF/classes is part of the classpath of the webapp. So any resources placed there can be loaded the same way they would be in a stand-alone Java application, via the classpath resource loader.

[abani patra]

Hi ,
You can use the following code snippet in the xml file to use properties files:

bean id="configProperties"
		class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
		<property name="locations">
			<list>
				<value>classpath:main-config.properties</value>
				<value>classpath:jdbc.properties</value>
				<!-- <value>classpath:applicationLicence.properties</value> -->
				<!-- add more properties files if required -->
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>