Best way to read properties file in java?

Question

I am aware of two ways to read a .properties file:

1- System.getProperties.load(Inputstream for .properties file);

2- Creating a new Properties object and

Answer 1

we will read properties files using the URl...

 Properties props = new Properties();
 try
 {
     java.net.URL url = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(fileName);
    java.net.URL url2 = ClassLoader.getSystemResource(fileName);
     props.load(url.openStream());
 }
 catch (FileNotFoundException e)
 {
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
     e.printStackTrace();
 }
 catch (IOException e)
 {
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
     e.printStackTrace();
 }
 return props;