ClassPathResource throws IOException

[zakhrim]

Hi everybody,
I am having a problem on using ClassPathResource.
I defined my resource as a bean

<bean id="welcome_mail_template" class="org.....ClassPathResource">
    <constructor-arg value="classpath:mails/welcome.txt" />
</bean>

Then I wired it up with my mail client class

<bean id="mail_client" class="it......MailClient">
    <property name="welcomeMail" ref="welcome_mail_template" />
</bean>

but when i try to call the getFile() method on my resource from within the MailClient, it throws an IOException. The code that throws the exception is:

File f = this.getWelcomeMail().getFile();

where getWelcomeMail() is the getter to obtain the resource (that is declared as interface Resource)

The exception is a FileNoutFoundException, the message is "class path resource [classpath:mails/welcome.html] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist", but I have yet check more than once and paths and names seem to be correct.

Can anybody help me? What am I doing wrong?

--Stefano

[zakhrim]

I found the problem... really silly, indeed.
Simply the ClassPathResource object bean was incorrect: in the path, you don't have to add "classpath:" and it works.

--Stefano