WildFly - getting resource from WAR

Question

I am using the following method to get a resource from WAR file in WildFly:

this.getClass().getResource(relativePath)

It works when the app

Answer 1

I was recently trying to figure out how to access a file within my own war in Java. The following is how the java classes and resources are packaged in the war file:

WAR
 `-- WEB-INF
        `-- classes (where all the java classes are)
        `-- resourcefiles
                   `-- resourceFile1

My target file was resourceFile1. To get that file, I just did the following in code:

InputStream inStream = this.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("resourcefiles/resourceFile1");

In this case the resource files would need to be in the same folder as the classes folder containing the java classes. Hopefully others find this helpful.