Properties file

[Ritu Kama]

Where should I place a .properties file in tomcat environment?

[William Brogden]

That depends on how you plan to read it. If you place it under the WEB-INF directory of your application, you can read it via the servlet context like this:

  InputStream in = config.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(
            "WEB-INF/surveys/survey.properties");
 

but because it is under WEB-INF, it can't be served by the web server.
An alternative would be to put it in a directory elsewhere and pass the path to the servlet as an init param in web.xml.
Bill
Bill