Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi

Please could you advise me on how I can get a relative reference to a file in my web application.

Part of my structure is:

I have a class:
<app>/WEB-INF/classes/package/MyClass.class

Which needs to create a file object from:
<app>/WEB-INF/xml/black.xml

As the app could be deployed anywhere and on any OS i need to reference the file relatively in the MyClass class.

Please could someone tell me how to do this. I have tried:

MyClass.class.getResource("xml/black.xml");
getClass().getResource("xml/black.xml");
getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("xml/black.xml")

All return null.

Thanks