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

If the properties file can be deployed along with the application make it part of your source tree. This will result in the properties file to be in the WEB-INF/classes folder.

This can then be read using

Properties properties = loadProperties("PropertyFileName.properties", this.getClass());
...

public static Properties loadProperties(String resourceName, Class cl) {
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    ClassLoader loader = cl.getClassLoader();
    try {
        InputStream in = loader.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
        if (in != null) {
            properties.load(in);
        }

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return properties;
}