How can I discover resources in a Java jar with a wildcard name?

Question

I want to discover all xml files that my ClassLoader is aware of using a wildcard pattern. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

A Spring ApplicationContext can do this trivially:

 ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationConext.xml");
 Resource[] xmlResources = context.getResources("classpath:/**/*.xml");

See ResourcePatternResolver#getResources, or ApplicationContext.