Loading a file from classpath

[M Mehta]

Hi,

I am working on a web application in RAD with websphare server. I have a propoerties file which is in /WEB-INF/classes folder. I am not able to load the file by accessing only through its name. I have to get the absolute path to by using

  Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
				.getResource(".").getPath()  

to get the file. What settings I need to do so I don't have to append the absolute path before file name. I have also tried classpath:filename, but it doesn't work.

Thanks,
Me

[Paul Clapham]

The usual way to access a file in the classpath is like this:

InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/filename");

[Rob Spoor]

If you ever need to use absolute file names within a Servlet container, use ServletContext.getRealPath.

[M Mehta]

Thanks Paul, Its working for me now.

However, just wanted to know if there is any way i can make settings in web.xml or somewhere so my propoerties files are loades by name only or by itself?