How to read a property file from WAR

[sathish kannan]

Hi
I have packed a property file in the WAR under the package WEB-INF as
/WEB-INF/Contant.properties
I want to read and extract the contents of this property file in my java class.
My code is as follows:
String filePath = "/WEB-INF/Contant.properties";
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.load(new FileInputStream(filePath));

Hashtable ptable = (Hashtable)prop;

is this correct ???
thanks in advance
KSK

[Karan V Praba]

Hai,
Please keep your properties file under WEB-INF/classes/ directory of your war file.
( /WEB-INF/classes/Contant.properties ).

[Nagendra Prasad]

An Answer and a Question...

We too keep the properties file in the WEB-INF/ folder. Is there a best practice that suggests that it should be in the WEB-INF/classes directory?
That being the question..
the answer to the sample code:

  
Properties props = new Properties();
try
{

FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("/WEB-INF/myApp.properties");
props.load(in);
in.close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
                // Handle exception here.
}

[Lasse Koskela]

I haven't done this myself (reading property files from within a .war file but I believe the reason for placing them into WEB-INF/classes is that you can then read the file using ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(String path)

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[Shankar Veerashetty]

If you include the properties file in the classes directory, it will be in the classpath and you can use the Class.getClass().getResourceAsStream()