在jar文件中导入bean定义时出错

Question

I have two project. One is Project-A which contains database operations java codes and spring bean definition xml files. The structure is:

resources/base is source folder and configure is a package inside that source folder. base-definitions.xml loads remaining xml files [dao-service-definitions.xml and transaction-definition.xml] like following.

base-definitions.xml

<import resource="classpath:configure/dao-service-definitions.xml"/>    
<import resource="classpath:configure/transaction-definition.xml"/>

Then I built jar file of that project including spring bean definiton files using Ant. I used zipfileset to set xml files directory inside jar file. The structure is same as above picture. resources\\base\\configure\\[xml files]

build.xml

<zipfileset dir="../resources/base/configure" includes="*.*" prefix="resources/base/configure" />

In the another Project-B, I imported jar file and set classpath. Then import base-definitions.xml from Project-A into another xml in Project-B.

<import resource="classpath*:**/base-definitions.xml"/>

Problem:

The problem is base-definitions.xml is found but can't find definition files imported in that.

Extracted Errors:

org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath*:**/base-definitions.xml]
Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath:configure/dao-service-definitions.xml]
class path resource [configure/dao-service-definitions.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your precious time.

Answer 1

In base-definitions.xml, I changed the

<import resource="classpath:configure/dao-service-definitions.xml"/>    
<import resource="classpath:configure/transaction-definition.xml"/>

to

<import resource="classpath:resources/base/configure/dao-service-definitions.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath:resources/base/configure/transaction-definitions.xml"/>

and it is working now. I found out that, as Project-A is intended to use as jar file in another project, the structure must be absolute path.