PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver with /WEB-INF/i18n/*.properties cannot resolved

[marceloverdijk]

I'm using the jsp code below to find the resources in a certain directory within WEVB-INF:

<code>
<% String pattern = "/WEB-INF/i18n/*.properties";

PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver resolver = new PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver();
Resource[] resources = resolver.getResources(pattern);
%>
</code>

There is 1 messages.properties file in the i18n directory and Spring is setup correctly using the ContextLoaderListener.

When executing the jsp I get:
class path resource [WEB-INF/i18n/] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist

I also tried "**/WEB-INF/i18n/*.properties", this gives no error, but no resources are returned.

Should it be possible what I'm trying to do?

I'm using Tomcat 5.5.16

[marceloverdijk]

I also used a simple Main program to test the PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver without Tomcat and then it works.

It seems related to Tomcat, are there any known problems with PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver in Tomcat?

[marceloverdijk]

Also

WebApplicationContext ctx = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContex t(this.getServletContext());
ctx.getResources(pattern);

finds the resources.

However I don't have the xtc object, that's why I I'm using PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver().

I need a container independent solution.