Roger,
Calling PropertyLoader.load("/myprops.properties"); returns the property
file which is stored in WEB-INF/classes. This would meet your objective of
having each context have its properties file stored separate from the others
-- the name is relative to the context.
The class I commonly use to read properties files follows:
public class PropertyLoader
{
private PropertyLoader() { } // Prevent public construction
/**
* Loads the property file specified.
* @param propertyFilename the name of a property file.
* @returns a Properties objects with the contents of the specified
property
* file, or null if the file does not exists or cannot be located.
* @throws IOException if an error occurs in locating or reading the
property
* file.
*/
public static Properties load(String propertyFilename)
{
Properties props = null;
try {
InputStream is =
PropertyLoader.class.getResourceAsStream(propertyFilename);
if (is != null)
{
props = new Properties();
props.load( is );
}
}
catch (IOException ioe) { }
return props;
}
}
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Varley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Default file locations for .properties file
Hi
I have a servlet running under Tomcat 3.2 that reads and writes to a
properties file created by the Properties class. If I only provide the
unqualified name of the properties file in my servlet, Tomcat reads and
writes the file to the %TOMCAT_HOME% directory. This is consistant with the
documentation in the server.xml file. The comments go onto say that I can
specify a "home" parameter that will be used to represent the base directory
for all relative paths, but these comments appear in a section of server.xml
that appears to be concerned with global configuration. So I'm concerned
that because the "all" is unqualified that by setting this "home" parameter
I will disrupt the "webapps/<contextname>/web-inf behaviour and that all my
properties files will appear in the same directory
I am running a number of different contexts and I would like each properties
file to appear somewhere within the directory structure for each context
without having to specify the absolute path in each servlet.
I hope that this makes sense.
Regards
Roger
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