ConfigurationUtils.locateFromClasspath() Classloader search logic: ------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: CONFIGURATION-286 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-286 Project: Commons Configuration Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 1.4 Environment: JBoss 4.0.5.GA, JMX, Java6_01 Reporter: Jeremy Norris Priority: Minor This is not necessarily a bug in Commons Configuration, rather simply questions the Classloader search logic in ConfigurationUtils.locateFromClasspath(). ConfigurationUtils.locateFromClasspath(), looks up resources from Classloaders in the following order: - Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(); - ClassLoader.getSystemResource(resourceName); Is this correct? Should there be more loaders looked up? Here is a scenario that "fails" to find the desired resource: A JMX invocation into a managed EJB that's scoped into an EAR on JBoss, which contains a resource in another jar inside: Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() will not find it since the classloader from currentThread() is from the jmx-console war context. In this situation, the correct loader I want is ConfigurationUtils.class.getClassLoader() (since commons configuration is bundled with my ear). Does it make sense to check this one as well? Other solutions are simply to give it the URL resource at the point it is looked up (ie: new Configuration(getClass().getResource(resourceName))), so it doesn't fall though to an unclear, complicated resource lookup from classloaders. What is the cleanest solution in this scenario? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]