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shoukatghouse
shoukatghouse

Reputation: 49

How to add resources in Maven Classpath

I am new to Spring and Maven. I am trying to build a spring app using maven archetypes. So i have set up the project with maven pom.xml. All things work fine but the only issue is my IDE (netbeans) is not including my spring.xml in the classpath. As a result the build fails with file not found exception. I have to specifically give the fully qualified path of the spring.xml to get this working.

So the below fails - AbstractApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");

If i change it as below it works - 

AbstractApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("file:///Users/shoukat/NetBeansProjects/csm/src/main/java/spring.xml");

I find that this is happening because my classpath does not include the main/java directory. Below are the results when i try to print the classloader URLs using the below code-

        ClassLoader sysClassLoader = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();

        //Get the URLs
        URL[] urls = ((URLClassLoader)sysClassLoader).getURLs();

        for(int i=0; i< urls.length; i++)
        {
            System.out.println(urls[i].getFile());
        }

Result -

/Users/shoukat/NetBeansProjects/csm/target/classes/
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.3/commons-logging-1.1.3.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/1.3/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/jcl-over-slf4j/1.7.5/jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.5.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.7.5/slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-context/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-context-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-aop/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-aop-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/aopalliance/aopalliance/1.0/aopalliance-1.0.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-beans-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar
/Users/shoukat/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-core/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-core-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar

Ideally this should also include the src directory as i am putting my resources spring.xml file in there. What do i need to change so the my src/main directory is included in classpath and i do not have to hardcode my program with the fully qualified system path of my spring.xml file?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1631

Answers (1)

Miguel Hernandez
Miguel Hernandez

Reputation: 121

When using ClassPathXmlApplicationContext search spring.xml in your classpath but maven when compile ignore resources like * .xml put in src/main/java

For this to work you have to create the resource folder and the folder tree is like:

src/main/java/..
src/main/resources/spring.xml

Then you can use:

AbstractApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");

Maven - Introduction to the Standard Directory Layout

Upvotes: 2

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