Index: jackrabbit-jca/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/jca/JCARepositoryManager.java
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--- jackrabbit-jca/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/jca/JCARepositoryManager.java	(revision 725455)
+++ jackrabbit-jca/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/jca/JCARepositoryManager.java	(working copy)
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@
  */
 package org.apache.jackrabbit.jca;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.RepositoryImpl;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.config.RepositoryConfig;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.config.ResourceResolver;
 
 import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -33,9 +34,6 @@
  */
 public final class JCARepositoryManager {
 
-    /** The config file prefix that signifies the file is to be loaded from the classpath. */
-    public static final String CLASSPATH_CONFIG_PREFIX = "classpath:";
-
     /**
      * Instance of manager.
      */
@@ -152,28 +150,11 @@
                 throws RepositoryException {
             if (repository == null) {
                 RepositoryConfig config = null;
-
-                if (configFile.startsWith(CLASSPATH_CONFIG_PREFIX)) {
-                    ClassLoader cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
-                    if (cl == null) {
-                        cl = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
-                    }
-
-                    InputStream configInputStream = cl.getResourceAsStream(
-                        configFile.substring(CLASSPATH_CONFIG_PREFIX.length()));
-                    try {
-                        config = RepositoryConfig.create(configInputStream, homeDir);
-                    } finally {
-                        if (configInputStream != null) {
-                            try {
-                                configInputStream.close();
-                            } catch (IOException e) {
-                                // ignore
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    config = RepositoryConfig.create(configFile, homeDir);
+                InputStream configInputStream = new ResourceResolver().getInputStream(configFile);
+                try {
+                    config = RepositoryConfig.create(configInputStream, homeDir);
+                } finally {
+                	IOUtils.closeQuietly(configInputStream);
                 }
                 repository = RepositoryImpl.create(config);
             }
Index: jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/config/ResourceResolver.java
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--- jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/config/ResourceResolver.java	(revision 0)
+++ jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/config/ResourceResolver.java	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package org.apache.jackrabbit.core.config;
+
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class ResourceResolver {
+
+	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ResourceResolver.class);
+
+	private Class loadedClass = this.getClass();
+
+	public static final String CLASSPATH_CONFIG_PREFIX = "classpath:";
+
+	public ResourceResolver() {
+		//
+	}
+
+	public ResourceResolver(Class loadedClass) {
+		this.loadedClass = loadedClass;
+	}
+
+	public InputStream getInputStream(String resourcePath) {
+
+		InputStream stream = null;
+
+		if (resourcePath.startsWith(CLASSPATH_CONFIG_PREFIX)) {
+			logger.info("resolving resource '{}' as a classpath resource", resourcePath);
+			ClassLoader cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
+			if (cl == null) {
+				cl = loadedClass.getClassLoader();
+			}
+			stream = cl.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath.substring(CLASSPATH_CONFIG_PREFIX.length()));
+			if (stream == null) {
+				logger.info("classpath resource '{}' does not exist");
+			}
+
+		} else {
+			logger.info("resolving resource '{}' as a file resource", resourcePath);
+			try {
+				stream = new FileInputStream(resourcePath);
+			} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+				logger.warn("cannot resolve file resource '{}' : '{}'", resourcePath, e.getMessage());
+				return null;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return stream;
+	}
+}
Index: jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/query/lucene/SearchIndex.java
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--- jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/query/lucene/SearchIndex.java	(revision 725455)
+++ jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/query/lucene/SearchIndex.java	(working copy)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeId;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeIdIterator;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.config.ResourceResolver;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.FileSystemResource;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.FileSystemException;
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@
 import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -1134,12 +1136,9 @@
         if (indexingConfigPath == null) {
             return null;
         }
-        File config = new File(indexingConfigPath);
-        if (!config.exists()) {
-            log.warn("File does not exist: " + indexingConfigPath);
-            return null;
-        } else if (!config.canRead()) {
-            log.warn("Cannot read file: " + indexingConfigPath);
+        InputStream config = new ResourceResolver().getInputStream(indexingConfigPath);
+        if (config == null) {
+            log.warn("Cannot resolve config {}", indexingConfigPath);
             return null;
         }
         try {