Loading a property file from a fixed folder in the filesystem

[Gabriele Giambartolomei]

Hello folks,

I have a file called outbound.properties that I load in my Java application. This file at the moment is in the /src directory of my project and I load it using something like:
InputStream input = MailService.class.getResourceAsStream(Constants.Session.OUTBOUND_PROPERTIES_FILE); where OUTBOUND_PROPERTIES_FILE is define as "/outbound.properties/ and is the name of the file and it all work prefectly !
Now, I would like to put the property file outside my project folder, for example in the folder C:\data of my filesystem. I tried to change the name of the OUTBOUND_PROPERTIES_FILE in "C:\data" but I get a
WARNING: Configuration file:/data/outbound.properties not found, using defaults. Of course the file it is there !

How can I load a java property file from an absolute path in my filesystem, for example C:\data\myConfigFiles ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help !
Gabriele

[Paul Clapham]

Like this:

InputStream input = new FileInputStream(Constants.Session.OUTBOUND_PROPERTIES_FILE);

The Class.getResourceAsStream() method gets an input stream from a resource which is defined relative to your classpath. That isn't what you want.

[Gabriele Giambartolomei]

Hello Paul,

many thanks for your quick reply ! It was driving me crazy ! I will try to do it the way you seggested me and see how it goes.
Thanks a lot !
Gabriele

[James Boswell]

Gabriele

Try loading it using a URI:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URI.html