Package eu.bandm.tools.util

Class Resource

java.lang.Object

eu.bandm.tools.util.Resource

public class Resource
extends Object

Auxiliary methods and auxiliary application for dealing with "resources" in the Java sense = non-class files in a class-file tree. (The main(java.lang.String[]) application is often called by Makefiles etc.)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Resource()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static void	copyToFile(Class<?> cl, String name, File target)	Extract a resource file from the classloader-world into the normal file system.
static void	copyToFile(ClassLoader cl, String name, File target)	Extract a resource file from the classloader-world into the normal file system.
static void	main(String[] args)	Command line tool to extract a resource relative to a given class out of a class tree into the normal file system.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

Resource

public Resource()

Method Details

copyToFile

public static void copyToFile(Class<?> cl,
 String name,
 File target)
                       throws IOException

Extract a resource file from the classloader-world into the normal file system.

Parameters:

cl - the class relative to which the resource is adressed.

name - a path relative to this class identifying the resource

target - where to copy it.

Throws:

IOException

copyToFile

public static void copyToFile(ClassLoader cl,
 String name,
 File target)
                       throws IOException

Extract a resource file from the classloader-world into the normal file system.

Parameters:

cl - class loader relative to which the resource is adressed.

name - a path relative to this class identifying the resource

target - where to copy it.

Throws:

IOException

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws ClassNotFoundException,
IOException

Command line tool to extract a resource relative to a given class out of a class tree into the normal file system. The default class loader is used, as with a simple Class.forName(String).

 
  arg[0] = classname
  arg[1] = relative path from class to resource
  arg[2] = filename to store
  

Throws:

ClassNotFoundException

IOException