Load properties file in a java servlet deployed in JBoss as a war

Question

I have a servlet deployed as a war in JBoss 4.0.2. I have a properties file for the deployed application. Where should I put this file? Under the conf directory in the jbo

Answer 1

To load that properties file in a portable manner, the best way would be to put it on the classpath of the web application (either in a JAR under WEB-INF/lib/ or under WEB-INF/classes/ or on the app server classpath if you want to be able to edit that file without repackaging your web application) and to use Class#getResourceAsStream(String).

The following code gets an InputStream for a property file which resides in the same package as the servlet in which the code is executed:

InputStream inStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
                 .getResourceAsStream("myfile.properties");

Then, load(InputStream) it into a Properties object (skipping Exception handling):

Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(inStream);