Can't find beanRefFactory.xml in EJB jar

[wpoitras]

I am using the following code to load my object from an EJB (not using Spring's EJB classes):

  public void setBeanContextName(String ctxName)
  {
    beanContextName = ctxName;
  }

  public String getBeanContextName()
  {
      return beanContextName;
  }

  public Object getBean(String bean)
  {
    BeanFactoryLocator bfl = SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance();
    BeanFactoryReference bf = bfl.useBeanFactory(beanContextName);
    return bf.getFactory().getBean(bean);
  }

It is bean called during ejbCreate()

I have my beanRefFactory in the root directory of my EJB jar. The contents is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http&#58;//www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
 <beans>
   <bean id="my.beans"
         class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
     <constructor-arg>
       <list>
         <value>springCommon.xml</value>
         <value>META-INF/springContext.xml</value>
       </list>
     </constructor-arg>
   </bean>
 </beans>

I get the following exception:
org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Unable to find resource for specified definition. Group resource name [classpath*:beanRefFactory.xml], factory key [my.beans]

As far as I can tell this exception means beanRefFactory.xml wasn't found in the path. Isn't the root of an EJB jar implicitly put in the classpath when calling code from inside the EJB?

[wpoitras]

In case people need a little more detail:

I'm running Weblogic 8.1. My EJB jar is directly deployed to the server, its not in an EAR. The EJB is not on the system classpath, just depoyed at runtime. I have 3 config files in the EJB jar:

beanRefFactory.xml
springCommon.xml
META-INF/springContext.xml

I've tried moving beanRefFactory.xml to a location outside the EJB to a place on the classpath. But then springCommon.xml can't be found.

[wpoitras]

As far as I can tell from research on this forum and the internet Weblogic does not implicitly place a loaded EJB jar into the classpath in its own classloader. An EJB classloader loads the classes explicitly, and reads the files in META-INF explicitly as well.

I believe the two options I have are:
- Create an EAR.
- Add "./" to the system classpath so that a jar can find resources in itself.