Best way to open a properties file

[sam White]

Hi,

Currently I am using the absolute path to open a properties file, shown as below:

propertiesUtil = 
                new PropertiesUtil("C:\\work\\NetBeansProjects\\MyProject\\Properties\\bank_file.properties");

In my PropertiesUtil constructor, I use the following code to open the file:

properties.load(new FileInputStream(filename));

I am not writing a single program. The above code is written in my application package.
The problem of using this method is that, I have to pass in an absolute path of the properties file. How to use a relative path instead?

After some search, I found some example use class dot notation, eg. my.app.properties to locate a properties file.

I am not sure which way is better.

Any example and suggestion is very appreciated.


Thanks
S

[Rob Spoor]

If you only want to read from the file you can turn it into a resource, after which you can read it through Class.getResourceAsStream or ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream.