How to read a file that is packaged in ESB in JBoss SOA?

Issue

• I deployed my ESB-component into JBoss SOA 4.3.0 deploy folder.
• The esb contains resources/conf/xsd/my.xsd that needs to be loaded within one of my action classes.

• This code fails to find the file packaged in the esb.

  public Message compose(T masterFile) throws MessageDeliverException 
  {
  ...
       SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(javax.xml.XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
       String resource = "resources/conf/xsd/my.xsd";
       Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(new File(resource));
       Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jxbCtx.createUnmarshaller();
       unmarshaller.setSchema(schema);
       Source streamSource = new StreamSource(new FileReader(masterFile));
       JAXBElement<SubscriptionXmlType> result = unmarshaller.unmarshal(streamSource, SubscriptionXmlType.class);
       return message;
  }
  
  
  
  
  ERROR [com.mycompany.esb.myapp.actions.MasterApplicationListener] <<<MasterApplicationListener.compose>>> Unable to unmarshal!
  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'file:/jboss-soa/soa-4.3.0.GA_CP02/jboss-soa-p.4.3.0/jboss-as/bin/resources/conf/xsd/my.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
   at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.reportSchemaError(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.getSchemaDocument(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory.newSchema(Unknown Source)
   at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:594)
   at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:610)
   at com.xyz.esb.example.csc.actions.MasterApplicationListener.compose(MasterApplicationListener.java:147)
   at com.xyz.esb.example.csc.actions.MasterApplicationListener.compose(MasterApplicationListener.java:73)
   at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.gateway.AbstractFileGateway.onSchedule(AbstractFileGateway.java:139)
   at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.lifecycle.AbstractScheduledManagedLifecycle$1.onSchedule(AbstractScheduledManagedLifecycle.java:68)
   at org.jboss.soa.esb.schedule.SchedulerJob$ESBScheduledJob.execute(SchedulerJob.java:289)
   at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:203)
   at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)