Re: Properties file in WAR

    Hi Deon,

    You may find several locations that work, depending on your container,
but the recommendation for Struts is in a directory beneath WEB-INF/classes.
That ensures the resource is accessible from the classpath.  It should work
for any web app and gives a consistent way to locate resources.

    To access resources, the most flexible method is:

 InputStream is =
     Thread.currentThread().
        getContextClassLoader().
            getResourceAsStream("/props/myprops.properties");

    The ContextClassLoader business has to do with the possibility of hot
swapping, in which case different class loaders may be used for different
versions of the same class.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DReid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:31 AM
Subject: Properties file in WAR


Hi everyone,

I have packaged my web application into a war file. Where do I put my
application properties file and how do I access it.
I am currently getting the following message:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: mfproperties.properties (The system
cannot find the file specified).

Any help would be appreciated.

Deon