FileInputStream and FileNotFound Exception

Question

I am trying to retrieve a jrxml file in a relative path using the following java code:

 String jasperFileName = \"/web/WEB-INF/reports/MemberOrderListReport.jrxm         


        

Answer 1

You're trying to treat the jrxml file as an object on the file-system, but that's not applicable inside a web application.

You don't know how or where your application will be deployed, so you can't point a File at it.

Instead you want to use getResourceAsStream from the ServletContext. Something like:

String resourceName = "/WEB-INF/reports/MemberOrderListReport.jrxml"
InputStream is = getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(resourceName);

is what you're after.