Why cannot ApplicationContext find an existing file?

[mark baum]

Hi,

I wrote the following test:

String relativeFilePath = "src"+fileSeparator+"applicationContext.xml";
File file = new File(relativeFilePath);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String lineRead = null;
while ((lineRead= br.readLine())!=null) {
System.out.println(lineRead);
}
assertTrue(file.exists());
assertTrue(file.isFile());
appContext =
      new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(relativeFilePath);
assertNotNull(appContext);

The program could read the file and gave the expected Output:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd"
default-autowire="byType">

<import resource="databaseContext.xml"/>
<import resource="transactionContext.xml"/>


<bean id="hyperlinkDao" class="org.schubi.du.dao.HybernateHyperLinkDaoImpl">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />

</bean>

</beans>

but then the ClassPathXmlApplicationContext threw the error


org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [src/applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [src/applicationContext.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Why's that? What did I do wrong?

Thanks for help

Mark

[Christophe Verré]

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, as its name says, looks for files in the classpath, so unless your directory (src/applicationContext.xml) is in the classpath, it won't find it.