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Hi guys,

I'm having a little trouble with a DB conn pool I'm setting up.
The details of the database (name, location, user/pwd, etc) are all stored in a properties file, so that if anything changes, it's a simple change to the properties file rather than code.

Prolem is, I can't find a way of getting this Init class to see the properties file. I don't want a full local path (C:\...\...\...\) I would need it to be a relative path. I have asked about this before and was under the standing that the WEB-INF folder was the place to have properties files, but my class still can not see it

ERROR: FileNotFoundException

CODE:
 
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Is your code inside a servlet? If yes, then you can simply use getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/properties/dbconn.properties");
 
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Code is not in a Servlet, but is called by a Servlet.

ERROR:


CODE:


SERVLET CALL:


[ August 17, 2007: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]
[ August 17, 2007: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]
 
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getClass().getResource("/WEB-INF/properties/dbconn.properties");


For this to work, the file needs to be in the classpath. Try moving the dbconn.properties file into the "classes" directory (and don't prefix it by "WEB-INF/classes").

Or work with the servlet context, as was suggested before.
 
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