How to refer properties file in Jboss?

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

Hi All,
I am having some properties files, that is used by my application, so i keep those files in server/default/conf. In my java class i refer them as

URI uri = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(strConfigFileName).toURI();
			File file = new File(uri); 

But, i get the exception as

2011-06-02 08:53:07,747 INFO  [STDOUT] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) URI for config file name : vfsfile:/D:/Software-Extracts/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/conf/Procedures.xml
2011-06-02 08:53:07,982 ERROR [STDERR] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI scheme is not "file"
2011-06-02 08:53:08,216 ERROR [STDERR] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) 	at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:366)

Can anyone please tell me where should i keep my properties/xml file in JBOSS? By the way, I am using Jboss5.1.0..