Relative paths in spring classpath resource

Question

I have a bunch of spring config files, all of which live under the META-INF directory in various subpackages. I have been using import like the following...

  <import resource="../database/schema.xml"/>

So a relative path from the source file. This works fine when I am working with a local build outside of a jar file. But when I package everything up in a jar then I get an error that it cannot resolve the URL resource. If I change the above to an absolute path (with classpath:) then it works fine.

Is there any way to use relative paths with ".." in when the configs are packaged in a jar or am I restricted to descending relative paths and absolute paths only?

Solution 1

A short addition: If you want to access the resources from a jar, it should read:

<import resource="classpath*:database/schema.xml"/>

Solution 2

<import resource="classpath:database/schema.xml"/>

Solution 3

What works fine on my project is the following lines in the app-servlet.xml :

<!-- Database Configuration -->
<import resource="classpath*:/database/DataSource.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath*:/database/Hibernate.xml"/>

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Comments

[Mike Q]

It would need to be <import resource="classpath:../database/schema.xml"/> but this doesn't work.

[Trick]

Hm... You have to have it in META-INF?

[Mike Q]

Not necessarily but I need it packaged in the jar so users of the jar pick up the config with it.

[Trick]

My structure for jars looks like so: src/main/java/ - code src/main/resources/ - configurations files (including spring)

[Gerben Rampaart]

The asterix! That's what I was missing.