Java: Accessing properties file inside a war

Question

I already searched StackOverflow for \"properties inside war\", but none of the results worked for my case.

I am using Eclipse Galileo and GlassFish v3 to develop a

Answer 1

Since you are using Spring, then use the Resource support in Spring to inject the properties files directly.

see http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/resources.html

Even if the class that requires the properties file is not Spring managed, you can still get access to the ApplicationContext and use it to load the resource

resource would be something like, classpath:settings.properties, presuming that your properties file got picked up by your build and dropped in the war file.

You can also inject directly, from the docs: