Actually, there are good reasons to NOT do it that way. You may not have
access to the file system for one, or the property file may be embedded ina
JAR file. Whereas if you use the getResourceAsStream you don't have thise
problems. However, if you need to access an arbitrary file, using
FileInputStream is the way to go. For general purpose properties file usage,
I reccommend you stay with getResourceAsStream. It makes it easy to switch
the properties files you use by just changing the classpath a little bit.
And it allows you to have defaults buried deep in the class path which are
overridden by the same named resource which occurs earlier in the classpath.
Just my 2 cents.
Regards,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Schueler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: properties files and tomcat
You should do this:
Properties myprops = new Properties();
myprops.load(new FileInputStream(new File("my.properties")));
if this doesn't seem to work, make sure that my.properites is in the right
place, and/or qualify the new File() call.
e.g.
....new File("d:\tomcat\webapps\myapp\my.properties");
The CLASSPATH is only for loading class files, and will not help you find
the properties file.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Rooms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: properties files and tomcat
Hi,
I want to read a properties file like this :
Properties.class.getResourceAsStream("my.properties");
This function should find the properties files when it's in the CLASSPATH.
I have putted the properties file in the WEB-APPS dir ...
anyone ?
thanks ...Christoph
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