Hi,
I was trying out variants on the property file reading inside a
servlet. I m facing a problem.

The code given below in which InputStream is a private memeber variable
shows the value of key only once, later invocation of the same servlet
shows the value as null. ( CODE 1 ).

But when I run the CODE 2, everything works fine and I get the proper
value of Key.

Why is the inputstream stuff in CODE 1 not working. I m pretty new to
servlets.

------------------------ CODE 1 -------------------
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class Property extends HttpServlet {

  public void init( ServletConfig config ) throws ServletException {
     super.init( config );
        try {
           is =
config.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/test.properties");
        } catch ( Exception ie ) {
           ie.printStackTrace();
        }

  }

  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response)
     throws IOException, ServletException {
        response.setContentType("text/plain");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println( "Hello...." );
        Properties prop = new Properties();
           prop.load( is );
           is.close();
        System.out.println( prop.get( "Key" ) );

     }
  InputStream is;
}

------------------------ CODE 2 -------------------

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class Property extends HttpServlet {

  public void init( ServletConfig config ) throws ServletException {
     super.init( config );
        prop = new Properties();
        try {
           InputStream is =
config.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/test.properties");
           prop.load( is );
           is.close();
        } catch ( IOException ie ) {
           ie.printStackTrace();
        }

  }

  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response)
     throws IOException, ServletException {
        response.setContentType("text/plain");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println( "Hello...." );
        System.out.println( prop.get( "Key" ) );

     }
  Properties prop;
}