Howdy,
Yeah, I usually prefer ServletContext#getResource or getResourceAsStream
over the Class loader approach (Justin's suggestion) as well.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


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>Subject: Re: Can I read file resources from a .WAR file at runtime ?
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>Justin's suggestion works, but personally I prefer using:
> InputStream is =
>getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myresource");
>
>"Steph Richardson" <steph@(protected)
>news:CCEJLCOJKFBHFPKFNNABEEHKDDAA.steph@(protected)...
>>
>> I have a web-app that uses several xml, xsd, and other configuration
>files
>at runtime ( including during the Application Init
>> event ). We keep these files under various directories under WEB-INF
so
>that we can get their paths at runtime relative to
>> ServletContext.getRealPath( "WEB-INF" ).
>>
>> When I am deploying this web-app as a war file, I can detect I am a
war
>file at runtime because ( getRealPath( "" ) == null ), but
>> is there a consistent way to read a file from this war file ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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