Where to put bean property files

[John Pletka]

I have a bean that I'm trying to use in a jsp page that requires a
.properties file to initialize itself.  It looks for the properties file in
the current directory (new FileInputStream("fileName.properties")).  I've
tried putting the file in the lib directory, the WEB-INF directory, the
META-INF directory, in the same directory as the .jsp file and even in the
jar file of the bean, but I always get "FileNotFound" exceptions.  Where is
the proper place to put configuration files?