Reading Web Application Resources

Question

Background

Developing a simple web application (Eclipse + JBoss + Apache Tomcat) to generate XML files.

Problem

The \"Business Area\" list querie

Answer 1

I'd put them in WEB-INF/classes, or bundle them inside your application.jar which will go inside WEB-INF/lib. Then you can load them from the classpath as explained here and here

Even better, if you use maven, the best practice is to put these type of files inside src/main/resources and then maven will take care of this for you.