Introducing Spring Framework

Chapter 6 ■ Using Resource Files
then you should have the following output:
2014-02-16 10:12:20,220 DEBUG [main] About to read the Resource file: menu.txt
Welcome to My Documents
1. Show all Documents
2. Show all Document's Types
3. Search by Type
4. Quit
■ ■Tip The best part of the Resource class provided by the Spring Framework is that it can locate the
resources in the classpath, an external URL, and on the file system: classpath: , URL:
http:///, file: /unix/path/resourcefile or file: c:\\windows\\path\\resourcefile. Which
one to choose? Well, it will depend on your requirements. Perhaps it is necessary to request access through a remote
server for special settings on your beans definitions such as passwords or any other credentials, so the url:http
resource will be the right one.
But wait, loading a resource file in your unit test (see Listing 6-2)? Well, there are different ways that you can
accomplish the same, but of course you need to use this in one of your classes, right? So let’s use Spring’s dependency
injection feature, as shown in Listings 6-3, 6-4, and 6-5. Listing 6-3 shows the usage of the org.springframework.
core.io.Resource class, the menuFile as a property with its setters and getters.
Listing 6-3. Menu.java
package com.apress.isf.spring.views;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Scanner;
import static java.lang.System.out;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
public class Menu {
private Resource menuFile = null;
public Resource getMenuFile() {
return menuFile;
}
public void setMenuFile(Resource menuFile) {
this.menuFile = menuFile;
}
public void printMenu(){
try{
InputStream stream = getMenuFile().getInputStream();
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(stream);
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