Loading a configuration file from the classpath

Question

I\'m working on making my Java app easy to deploy to other computers and am writing an ant script to do so, that is going fine.

I\'m having trouble loading resources

Answer 1

Regarding log4j : If you want it to use a different config file from the default, you can use

org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(...)

Variants of this static method accept URL, Properties or file name.

There is also

org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator

for the XML files.