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?

Thanks.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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"/>

If it can help you ...

Answer 3

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

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