Retrieving a file from WEB-INF without a servlet context

[jjunos]

Is there a way to do this without the ServletContext?

Normally, if I had the servlet context, i would do a ServletContext.getResourceasStream() etc, but I'm using Spring2.5, and I have a class that I would like to have initialized automatically, but can't figure out a way to pass in the ServletContext.

ie,
in my app-context.xml

<bean id="test" class="testClass" init-method="init"/>

I need a file in WEB-INF to initialize some data in the class.

I've tried doing a

InputStream in = new FileInputStream( "/WEB-INF/my.xml" );

but from my class, i get a null pointer. Any ideas?

thanks

[thebugslayer]

Hi jjunos,

There recommended way is to use servletContext. In Spring you can easily get this by implementing org.springframework.web.context.ServletContextAwar e interface with your bean class, and you will have a call back method with it's servletContext object as parameter.

[jjunos]

Yeah, that was the way I went. It actually ended up being somewhat overkill, I ended up in the end refactoring the class and passing/retrieving the file via a Resource that was injected in. Worked like a charm