Thanks Leonidas
________________________________ Hi there, webwork used to have a class that would easily read external sources like xml files, but i do not recall the class name now. If you want to read from simple property files you could use something like : String path = ServletActionContext.getServletContext().getRealPath(""); Properties prop = new Properties(); try { // load properties from the class path prop.load(new FileInputStream(path + "//WEB-INF//classes//ldapconf.properties")); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } //get parameter param1 String param1 = prop.getProperty("param1"); Regards