Your properties file must be in a location that Tomcat knows about via its classpath (WEB-INF/classes is on Tomcat's classpath, that's why it worked when your file was there). See the Tomcat docs under "Classpath How-to", which describes the class loaders in Tomcat. Alan Tingley
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurent Michenaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:40 AM Subject: Loading properties files Hi, Could u tell me what is not correct with that : Before we had that ( the properties files were in WEB-INF/classes ) and that works : package com.a2a.util ; public interface A2aConstantes { public static final String SCHEMA = java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle("db").getString("schema"); } Now we want to have properties files in WEB-INF/config so we change the file like this : package com.a2a.util ; public interface A2aConstantes { public static final String SCHEMA = java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle("/WEB-INF/config/db").getString("sche ma"); } But it doesnot work, it can't find the db.properties. I have tried with "WEB-INF/config/db" and "/WEB-INF/config/db.properties" but it doesnot work too. Can u tell me what's wrong ? Michenaud Laurent - Adeuza - [ Développeur Web - Administrateur Réseau ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>