ResourceLoader (Metro Web Services Runtime OSGi Bundle 3.0.0-M3 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

TCPResourceLoader
```
public interface ResourceLoader
```
Used to locate resources for DeploymentDescriptorParser.
This allows DeploymentDescriptorParser to be used outside a servlet container, but it still needs to work with a layout similar to the web application. If this can be abstracted away better, that would be nice.

Author:

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`URL`	`getCatalogFile()`	Gets the catalog XML file that should be consulted when loading resources from this `ResourceLoader`.
`URL`	`getResource(String path)`	Returns the actual location of the resource from the 'path' that represents a virtual locaion of a file inside a web application.
`Set<String>`	`getResourcePaths(String path)`	Returns the list of files in the given directory.

- Method Detail
  - getResource
```
URL getResource(String path)
         throws MalformedURLException
```
    Returns the actual location of the resource from the 'path' that represents a virtual locaion of a file inside a web application.
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - Desiganates an absolute path within an web application, such as: '/WEB-INF/web.xml' or some such.
    
    Returns:
    
    the actual location, if found, or null if not found.
    
    Throws:
    
    MalformedURLException
  - getCatalogFile
```
URL getCatalogFile()
            throws MalformedURLException
```
    Gets the catalog XML file that should be consulted when loading resources from this ResourceLoader.
    
    Throws:
    
    MalformedURLException
  - getResourcePaths
```
Set<String> getResourcePaths(String path)
```
    Returns the list of files in the given directory.
    
    Returns:
    
    null if the path is invalid. empty if the path didn't contain any entry in it.
    
    See Also:
    
    ServletContext.getResourcePaths(String)