don't mess around with the system classpath. makes your webapp non-portable.
take advantage of the fact that you are using a war structure.
put the property file under WEB-INF/classes/
then do this
java.util.Properties prop = new java.util.Properties();
prop.load( Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStrea
m("mypropertyfile.properties") );
that should do the trick,
you may also want to try
"./mypropertyfile.properties" and "/mypropertyfile.properties" if the file
doesn't get picked up
Filip
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samson, Lyndon [IT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: How to read property files?
>
>
> Make sure the directory with the properties file in it is part of your
> CLASSPATH. Ie add . if the properties is in the current directory.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How to read property files?
>
>
> >> Have you tried doing this from a class inside a .jar file? I have
> >> and it didn't work.
>
>
> > Works fine for me? My jar file had a manifest, a class
> default package )
> > and a properties file. I added the jar to the CLASSPATH and executed the
> > class. Voila!
>
> The properties file is not in the jar. Just the class that tries
> to access it. I didn't try it with the properties file inside the
> jar, so it may work. But I don't want to do that. I want
> to make it readily editable.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Samson, Lyndon [IT]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:42 AM
> Subject: RE: How to read property files?
>
>
> > Works fine for me? My jar file had a manifest, a class
> default package )
> > and a properties file. I added the jar to the CLASSPATH and executed the
> > class. Voila!
> >
> > As the InputStream has no concept of file paths there is no easy way to
> > determine where
> > in the CLASSPATH it was loaded from. CLASSPATH search order is actually
> > undefined allthough it tends to left to right. The only way I
> can think of
> > is to split System.getProperties().getProperty("java.class.path") and
> append
> > the
> > properties file name to every path and then checking if that file is
> > readable. Yuk.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:08 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: How to read property files?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > InputStream is =
> > this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("myapp.properties");
> > > Properties p = new Properties();
> > > try {
> > > p.load(is);
> > > } catch ( java.io.IOException e ) {
> > > // Can't load props file
> > > }
> > >
> > > That way the properties file can be anywhere in the classpath.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:27 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: How to read property files?
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like to put a myapp.properties file in the top level directory
> > > of my webapp. But I can't figure out what filepath to give the
> > > Properties.load() method in order to load my servlet property object.
> > > Can someone help me?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > =eas=
> > >
> >
>
