[Sandeep Khanna]

Hi All.

I am trying to use the Castor XML Framework to read Objects from XML and write Objects to XML files.

* I have castor-mapping.xml & castor.properties files bundled in the EAR at EAR/resources/castor-mapping.xml & EAR/resources/castor.properties
* I have Class-path: resources/ in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF files of both my EJB jar and WebApp war files.

Using a regular EAR copy deployment to JBoss 4.0.1sp1, I am trying to access the castor-mapping.xml file from within one of the WebApp classes as follows:

Marshaller marshaller = new Marshaller( new PrintWriter( System.out) );
Mapping castorMapping = new Mapping();
castorMapping.loadMapping( “/resources/castor-mapping.xml” );
marshaller.setMapping( castorMapping );
Marshaller.marshal( result, new PrintWriter( System.out) );

the line castorMapping.loadMapping( “/resources/castor-mapping.xml” ); throws IOException: File Not Found

I tried all combinations of “/resources/castor-mapping.xml”, “resources/castor-mapping.xml”, “castor-mapping.xml”, “/castor-mapping.xml” but nothing works!

Any clues? Also, how can I get the above to work in case of MyEclipse *exploded* deployment where I don’t see the MANIFEST.MF anywhere in the exploded filesystem!!

Thanks in advance,
Sandeep Khanna

[Riyad Kalla]

Any clues? Also, how can I get the above to work in case of MyEclipse *exploded* deployment where I don’t see the MANIFEST.MF anywhere in the exploded filesystem!!

Did you create the META-INF directories under the root of your /src dir for both the EJB and Web proejcts?

[Sandeep Khanna]

@support-rkalla wrote:

Any clues? Also, how can I get the above to work in case of MyEclipse *exploded* deployment where I don’t see the MANIFEST.MF anywhere in the exploded filesystem!!

Did you create the META-INF directories under the root of your /src dir for both the EJB and Web proejcts?

I had the the META-INF folder for the EJB project as EJB/source/META-INF with the following contents:
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 407723 Nov 11 13:58 ejb-jar.xml
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 66348 Nov 11 13:58 ibm-ejb-jar-bnd.xmi
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 35116 Nov 11 13:58 ibm-ejb-jar-ext.xmi
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 30086 Nov 11 13:58 jboss.xml
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 31890 Nov 11 13:58 weblogic-ejb-jar.xml

I added the Ant generated MANIFEST.MF file in here.

I just created the META-INF folder for the WebApp project as WebApp/source/META-INF with empty contents. The WebApp source folder contains the Java source files. The WebApp/jsp. And, since in the exploded deployment, the WebApp/jsp folder contents show up I think it should be WebApp/jsp/META-INF

I added the Ant generated MANIFEST.MF file in here.

I already got the above requirement working with a typical EAR file deployment. I had to do the following to load a resource in the global (EAR file) classpath:

Marshaller marshaller = new Marshaller( new PrintWriter( System.out) );
Mapping castorMapping = new Mapping();
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource( getClass().getResourceAsStream( “/castor-mapping.xml” ) );
if( null != inputSource ){
castorMapping.loadMapping( inputSource );
marshaller.setMapping( castorMapping );
marshaller.marshal( result );

I think it’s working now except Castor is not able to load it’s castor.properties file from the EAR/resources/castor.properties location which causes my Castor specific customizations (pretty-print XML) to not load up. But, since I load the EAR/resources/castor-mapping.xml explicity atleast the Castor Mapping class loads that. So, Is there some global location *within* the Enterprise application where I can put castor.properties for it to be available to Castor?

Hope the above EAR Classloader resource loading snippet helps someone.

[Sandeep Khanna]

@sandeepkhanna wrote:

@support-rkalla wrote:

Any clues? Also, how can I get the above to work in case of MyEclipse *exploded* deployment where I don’t see the MANIFEST.MF anywhere in the exploded filesystem!!

Did you create the META-INF directories under the root of your /src dir for both the EJB and Web proejcts?

I had the the META-INF folder for the EJB project as EJB/source/META-INF with the following contents:
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 407723 Nov 11 13:58 ejb-jar.xml
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 66348 Nov 11 13:58 ibm-ejb-jar-bnd.xmi
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 35116 Nov 11 13:58 ibm-ejb-jar-ext.xmi
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 30086 Nov 11 13:58 jboss.xml
-rw-r–r– 1 sandeepk sandeepk 31890 Nov 11 13:58 weblogic-ejb-jar.xml

I added the Ant generated MANIFEST.MF file in here.

I just created the META-INF folder for the WebApp project as WebApp/source/META-INF with empty contents. The WebApp source folder contains the Java source files. The WebApp/jsp. And, since in the exploded deployment, the WebApp/jsp folder contents show up I think it should be WebApp/jsp/META-INF

I added the Ant generated MANIFEST.MF file in here.

I already got the above requirement working with a typical EAR file deployment. I had to do the following to load a resource in the global (EAR file) classpath:

Marshaller marshaller = new Marshaller( new PrintWriter( System.out) );
Mapping castorMapping = new Mapping();
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource( getClass().getResourceAsStream( “/castor-mapping.xml” ) );
if( null != inputSource ){
castorMapping.loadMapping( inputSource );
marshaller.setMapping( castorMapping );
marshaller.marshal( result );

I think it’s working now except Castor is not able to load it’s castor.properties file from the EAR/resources/castor.properties location which causes my Castor specific customizations (pretty-print XML) to not load up. But, since I load the EAR/resources/castor-mapping.xml explicity atleast the Castor Mapping class loads that. So, Is there some global location *within* the Enterprise application where I can put castor.properties for it to be available to Castor?

Hope the above EAR Classloader resource loading snippet helps someone.

Replying to my own posting.. hee hee…

I just placed castor.properties in the EJB/source/ folder which already had hibernate.properties, log4j.properties, etc. And, Castor can now pretty-print XML to the console.

[Riyad Kalla]

Are things working for you now?

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