Grails Reading in XML

xmlslurp.groovy

package com.limited.ss.item

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware
import grails.converters.*

class TestService implements ApplicationContextAware {

    static transactional = false

    def applicationContext
    
    def loadSampleData() {
        def myfile = applicationContext.getResource("/WEB-INF/xml/sampleevents.xml").getFile().text
        def xml = XML.parse(myfile)
        
        def events = xml.event
        log.info("SIZE: ${events.size()}")
        
        return xml
    }
    
    void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
        this.applicationContext = applicationContext
    }
}

This works when deployed to Tomcat, or Jetty, but not in a WebLogic war file. Back to the drawing board.