Howto access properties file from Java EE web application?

Question

I have created a dynamic web project within Eclipse. I created a properties file inside the src directory:

<project-root>/src/props.properties

I'm starting Tomcat via Eclipse in debug mode. Now I want to read the properties file from one of my POJOs, but I get a FileNotFoundException. The current path seems to be the Eclipse path.

I had a look into the web for solution, but none of them worked for me. Maybe I did something wrong. The code is like this:

File file = new File("props.properties");
FileReader reader = new FileReader(file);
properties.load(reader);

How should I acces the properties file? Where should it be located?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If its a web application then the properties will get deployed to WEB-INF/classes and can be loaded using the class loader

InputStream in = {NameOfClassWhereThisisInvoked}.class.getResourceAsStream("/props.properties");
properties.load(in);
in.close();

Actully that should work regardless of whether it is a webapp or not.

I'm assuming src is defined as a source folder