title: Relative paths in spring classpath resource
body: <p>I have a bunch of spring config files, all of which live under the META-INF directory in various subpackages.  I have been using import like the following...</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;import resource="../database/schema.xml"/&gt;
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  <p>So a relative path from the source file.  This works fine when I am working with a local build outside of a jar file.  But when I package everything up in a jar then I get an error that it cannot resolve the URL resource.  If I change the above to an absolute path (with classpath:) then it works fine.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to use relative paths with ".." in when the configs are packaged in a jar or am I restricted to descending relative paths and absolute paths only?</p>