Reading Configuration File

[Natarajan, Senthil]

Hi,
How to read configuration file in Hadoop.
I tried by copying the file in HDFS and also placing within the jar file.

I tried like this in Map constructor
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
          FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(conf);
          Path inFile = new Path("/file/path/configfile.txt");
          FSDataInputStream in = fs.open(inFile);
          properties.load(in);
          in.close();

And also like this
//URL url = UserPattern2.class.getResource(commFile);
          URL url = new URL("/file/path/configfile.txt");
          if( url != null ) {
             InputStream in = url.openStream();
             properties.load(in);
             in.close();
          }

Looks like it is not finding the file seems, I am getting NullPointerException.
Here I am opening file and loading into Java Properties object.

Please let me know what might be the problem.

Thanks,
Senthil