Thanks Mark & Craig.
My situation is slightly different. I am trying to
read the property file from a Java class on the
server(not the servlet). I would think there would be
a way around to do this- else I can work around to
pass a param to the helper class.
Thanks
Sanjay
--- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Wagoner, Mark wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:38:31 -0500
> > From: "Wagoner, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RE: Working Directory
> >
> > I place my properties files in the WEB-INF
> directory and do the following to
> > find them -
> >
> > String webInfFolder =
> getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF")
> >
>
> This only works if the app is run from an unpacked
> directory, which is not
> guaranteed to be portable (not every server supports
> running this way).
> The best way to read a properties file is to put it
> in the WEB-INF
> subdirectory and use something like:
>
> Properties props = new Properties();
> InputStream stream =
>
>
getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myprops.properties");
> props.load(stream);
> stream.close();
>
> which is guaranteed to be portable to any server.
>
> Craig
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sanjay Bahal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:34 AM
> > To: tomcat
> > Subject: Working Directory
> >
> >
> > I am trying to read a properties file from my
> servlet.
> > It always comes back saying file not found. I have
> > tried placing the file in
> > classes/web-inf/context-path. Ideally I would like
> to
> > lace it in my classes directory- How do I achieve
> it.
> > Thanks
> > Sanjay
> >
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