4 Replies Latest reply on Sep 29, 2011 8:56 AM by oakleyx

JBOSS 6: Exploded War - path not found

oakleyx Sep 13, 2011 5:41 PM

Hello,

Here is my situation: I'm using JBoss 6 and when I try and deploy my war, the war explodes and is stored in the Virtual File System. I have code thay when the application starts up, it tries to read an xml file in the the WEB-INF directory. I'm getting the following runtime exception:

ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/].[ActionServlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet ActionServlet threw exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException C:\jboss-6.0.0\server\default\deploy\test.war\WEB-INF\classes\security.xml (The system cannot find the path specified)

Now if I just explode the war manually and drop the contents in the deploy directory, the application works perfectly.

So I think what i need to do, is some how figure out how to access the file in the VFS.

Currently this is the code that i'm calling to return the path:

ClassLoader loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

URL url = loader.getResource(this.filename);

String path = url.getPath();

repos = new File(path);

Any Ideas on how I can find out how to get the virtual path?

Could it be a configuration issue?

Thanks

-Dan

1. Re: JBOSS 6: Exploded War - path not found

esimioni Sep 14, 2011 12:40 PM (in response to oakleyx)

I have the same problem, this behavior is the same at least since JBoss AS 5.1.
Would be nice to have a solution for this annoying issue.

Cheers,

Eduardo.
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2. Re: JBOSS 6: Exploded War - path not found

oakleyx Sep 27, 2011 1:17 PM (in response to esimioni)

I agree.
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3. Re: JBOSS 6: Exploded War - path not found

jaikiran Sep 28, 2011 3:14 AM (in response to oakleyx)

oakleyx wrote:

Currently this is the code that i'm calling to return the path:

ClassLoader loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

URL url = loader.getResource(this.filename);
..
..
String path = url.getPath();
repos = new File(path);

..

You have done that partially right. You shouldn't be using the absolute file path while working in Java EE environment. Instead, what you (typically) need to do is:

InputStream is = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(filename);
// then use the inputstream for further processing.

How do you use the "repos" later on in your code?
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4. Re: JBOSS 6: Exploded War - path not found

oakleyx Sep 29, 2011 8:56 AM (in response to jaikiran)

Thanks jaikiran pai, it worked!

Basicallly we pass it to an FileInputStream and it reads in parameters in a xml file.

I'm not sure why its was written this way to be honest.

Thanks Again!
-Dan
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