loading properties file for a component.

[Ritesh Srivastava]

Hi,

I have created a jar file which is going to use a propeties file.
The jar file is placed in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\myApplication\WEB-INF\lib

There is a class in the jar which is trying to load the properties file and then access its values.

I have put the properties file in WEB-INF\classes as well as the root of the folder which is later converted to a jar.

How can I load the properties file? I tried different ways like using Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream and some other wasy.

Thanks,
Ritesh

[Ben Souther]

This page from the Tomcat documentation shows two ways:
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-45c3314139cb900ddd43dde2ff671532e6e844bc