Populating a HashMap with entries from a properties file

Question

I want to populate a HashMap using the Properties class.
I want to load the entries in the .propeties file and then copy it into

Answer 1

public static Map getProperty()
    {
        Properties prop = new Properties();
        Mapmap = new HashMap();
        try
        {
            FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(Constants.PROPERTIESPATH);
            prop.load(inputStream);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("Some issue finding or loading file....!!! " + e.getMessage());

        }
        for (final Entry entry : prop.entrySet()) {
            map.put((String) entry.getKey(), (String) entry.getValue());
        }
        return map;
    }