Reading properties from tomcat

Question

What is the best practice for reading config file(s) for your application. Which folders in tomcat server are \"on the classpath\".

I tried placing my config file in

Answer 1

add .properties file in apache-tomcat-7.0.78\conf folder File configDir = new File(System.getProperty("catalina.base"), "conf"); File configFile = new File(configDir, "dashboardiframes.properties"); InputStream stream = new FileInputStream(configFile);Properties properties = new Properties(); properties.load(stream);