Tomcat 6.x supporting classpath wildcards

[Urkens Jean-Pierre]

Hi,

I'm porting a web application from SUN AS9 to Tomcat-6.0.37 to run on Sun 
Solaris 5.10 and I'm experiencing problems with classpath wildcards.

The web application is using SPRING-3.0.4 and Hibernate-3.2.6 and loading the 
Hibernate mapping files is done within a SPRING bean declaration using the 
"classpath*" (cf. 
spring-resources-classpath-wildcards<http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/resources.html#resources-classpath-wildcards>)
 wildcard as follows:
       <bean abstract="true" id="defaultSessionFactory" 
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
             <property name="mappingLocations">
                    <list>
                           <value>classpath*:hibernatemappings/*.hbm.xml</value>
                    </list>
             </property>
             <property name="hibernateProperties" ref="hibernateProperties" />
             <property name="entityInterceptor" ref="auditInterceptor" />
       </bean>

When trying to load the SPRING beans during startup I get the error (note that 
defaultSessionFactory is the parent of 'centraalSessionFactory'):

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error 
creating bean with name 'centraalSessionFactory' defined in class path resource 
[aeoDataAccessContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception 
is org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping document from 
input stream
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1420)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:322)
          ... 66 more
Caused by: org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping 
document from input stream
          at 
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:527)
          at 
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:684)
          at 
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1477)
          at 
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1417)
          ... 73 more
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: unknown protocol: classpath Nested 
exception: unknown protocol: classpath
          at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:484)
          at 
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:518)
       ... 77 more

I couldn't directly find any reference on the web regarding Tomcat and 
classpath wildcards so I'm not sure whether this is  supported by Tomcat-6.x.