[ajug-members] How to read external configuration files inside anEJB jar

[Arvindeep.Anchala at alltel.com]

Yogesh,
 
As a pointer,  I am giving you a sample of how it is done in a Servlet container. I have not done it for EJBs, but you can probably find a parallel in EJB API.
 
 
 
// Assuming the file to modify is under /xml directory. We do not know where will be the /xml directory be created physically on the server on deployment of the .war
 
ServletContext context = getServletContext();

java.net.URL url = context.getResource("/xml");

String path = url.getPath();

//pass this  'path'  to the application so that it can modify the file

Hope this helps,

Regards,

 
Arvindeep 


  -----Original Message-----
From: ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org [mailto:ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org]On Behalf Of Yogesh Bhardwaj
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:42 AM
To: ajug-members at ajug.org
Subject: [ajug-members] How to read external configuration files inside anEJB jar



Hello all,
 
I'm trying to read an external XML configuration file in a bean inside my EJB jar. Initially I placed it inside my EJB project's META-INF and was able to read it doing a 
getResourceAsStream(CONFIGURATION_FILENAME)
 
But just came to know that the client using this application needs to be able to modify this configuration. I certainly would not want them to open up the jar and re-package it. Is there a way I can have the XML inside EAR's META-INF or somewhere at the root level of the EAR package and still  read it in my bean? I just needed some suggestions as I have less than an hour to implement this change, before I do it in a down and dirty manner. Really appreciate your help.
 
Thanks
-yogesh



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