How to get path in spring to access configuration file

Question

I have written a Spring program where the following classes, interfaces and xml files are in different packages. I use Eclipse Kepler.

SelectClient.java

package com.rajeev.spring.action;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;

import com.rajeev.spring.DAOI.Select;

/**
 * @author rajeev
 *
 * 
 */
public class SelectClient {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String path=System.getProperty("user.dir");
        System.out.println(path+"/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml");
        Resource resource=new ClassPathResource(path+"/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml");
        XmlBeanFactory beanFactory=new XmlBeanFactory(resource);
        Object object=beanFactory.getBean("sb");
        Select select=(Select)object;
        System.out.println("emp name is:"+select.fetchName(101));
    }

}

The problem is that when I execute the SelectClient.java, it is giving following error

E:\javahyd\eclipse\Spring_DataSource_Object_Inject/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml
Jan 17, 2014 11:41:43 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [E:/javahyd/eclipse/Spring_DataSource_Object_Inject/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml]
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [E:/javahyd/eclipse/Spring_DataSource_Object_Inject/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [E:/javahyd/eclipse/Spring_DataSource_Object_Inject/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:341)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory.(XmlBeanFactory.java:78)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory.(XmlBeanFactory.java:66)
    at com.rajeev.spring.action.SelectClient.main(SelectClient.java:26)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [E:/javahyd/eclipse/Spring_DataSource_Object_Inject/src/com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:158)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:328)
    ... 4 more

The above exception, is due to the path. When I use the same path in run(windows+r) the particular file it is opening. I dont want to keep my configuration file out of any packages.

Solution

ClassPathResource is used to refer the path of the resource in the classpath. The path argument passed in the ClassPathResource refers to the absolute path within the class path.So, use

Resource resource=new ClassPathResource("com/rajeev/spring/DAOImpl/SelectCfg.xml");

Try to use FileSystemResource to mention absolute path in the filesystem