How to load a resource from WEB-INF directory of a web archive

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I have a web archive with a file placed in the WEB-INF directory   How do I load that file in a java class   I know I can put it in the classes directory and load it from there  It would just be put it in WEB-INF

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Here is how it works for me with no Servlet use.

Let's say I am trying to access web.xml in project/WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml

In project property Source-tab add source folder by pointing to the parent container for WEB-INF folder (in my case WebContent )

Now let's use class loader:

InputStream inStream = class.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("Web-INF/web.xml")

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The problem I had accessing the sqlite db file I created in my java  jersey  server had solely to due with path   Some of the docs say the jdbc connect url should look like  jdbc sqlite   path-to-file sample db    I thought the double-slash was part of a htt protocol-style path and would map properly when deployed  but in actuality  it s an absolute or relative path   So  when I placed the file at the root of the WebContent folder  tomcat project   a uri like this worked  jdbc sqlite sample db    The one thing that was throwing me was that when I was stepping through the debugger  I received a message that said  opening db      permission denied    I thought it was a matter of file system permissions or perhaps sql user permissions   After finding out that SQLite doesn t have the concept of roles permissions like MySQL  etc  I did eventually change the file permissions before I came to what I believe was the correct solution  but I think it was just a bad message  i e  permission denied  instead of File not found    Hope this helps someone

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Use the getResourceAsStream   method on the ServletContext object  e g   servletContext getResourceAsStream   WEB-INF myfile      How you get a reference to the ServletContext depends on your application    do you want to do it from a Servlet or from a JSP   EDITED  If you re inside a Servlet object  then call getServletContext    If you re in JSP  use the predefined variable application

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