wildcard matching and contexts in external jars

[jakubpawlowicz]

Hi,

I've found a problem with loading Spring context files from external jars. Originally, it was a Maven mailing list discussion (http://www.nabble.com/-M2--Differenc....html#a5362647) but I've found that this problem refers rather to Spring than to Maven 2.

And here is the problem:
I have a jar (let's say CORE.jar) with applicationContext.xml, applicationContext-hibernate.xml, and all implementation classes inside. Then I want to use these resources in another project, which has CORE.jar on its classpath:

String[] contextPaths = { "classpath:applicationContext*.xml"};
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(contextPaths);

Unfortunately neither applicationContext.xml nor applicationContext-hibernate.xml is being loaded. However, If I change my code to this:

String[] contextPaths = { "applicationContext.xml", "applicationContext-hibernate.xml" };
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(contextPaths);

everything works fine.

So is it a bug or a feature?
Any thoughts?

I'm using JDK 1.5 and Spring Framework 2.0-RC2.

Regards,
Jakub Pawlowicz

[Costin Leau]

Try using classpath*:applicationContext*.xml - this way all classpaths will be searched for the matching files.

[jakubpawlowicz]

Thanks Costin, that did the trick!

[Rick Evans]

Hi

See also:

http://static.springframework.org/sp...s.html#d0e5951

Cheers
Rick