Reading properties file from WEB-INF/classes

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Dundonald - 07 Oct 2007 09:23 GMT

Properties file stored in WEB-INF/classes.

There are numerous ways to read properties files, but I'd like to know
what your opinions are on the best way to read from the WEB-INF/
classes directory given that I could deploy my war file to any server
on any platform not knowing how a server is configured, i.e. with its
real paths etc.

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Manish Pandit - 07 Oct 2007 10:52 GMT

> Properties file stored in WEB-INF/classes.
>
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> on any platform not knowing how a server is configured, i.e. with its
> real paths etc.

getResourceAsStream() should give you the resouece that is in WEB-INF/
classes.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#getResourceAs
Stream(java.lang.String)

-cheers,
Manish

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Lew - 07 Oct 2007 16:54 GMT

Dundonald wrote:

>> Properties file stored in WEB-INF/classes.
>>
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>> on any platform not knowing how a server is configured, i.e. with its
>> real paths etc.

> getResourceAsStream() should give you the resouece that is in WEB-INF/
> classes.
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#getResourceAs
Stream(java.lang.String)

(Also available from java.lang.Class.)

<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getResou
rceAsStream(java.lang.String)>
will do the same thing rooted at the application context.

> Returns the resource located at the named path as an InputStream object.

...

> The path must begin with a "/" and is interpreted as relative to the current context root.

...

> This method is different from java.lang.Class.getResourceAsStream,
> which uses a class loader.
> This method allows servlet containers to make a resource available to a servlet from
> any location, without using a class loader.

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