Hi, Caroline. Your code tries to open a file from the filesystem, and since the path you specified is invalid from the current working directory you get a FileNotFoundException.
Try a oProp new Properties().load (getClass().getClassloader().getResourceAsStream(PROPFILE)); Hiran ----------------------------------------- Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimer Straße 11 80867 München Phone +49-89-54 74 21 34 Fax +49-89-54 74 21 99 > -----Original Message----- > From: Caroline Jen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004 16:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problem in Locating a properties File (Not > application.properties) > > The application.properties file in my web application works OKay. > > I have another file called > storageDirectory.properties, which has one line: > > outputFile = > C:\\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27\\webapps\\AppName\\var\\ > > I set my classpath to > C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27\webapps\AppName\WEB-INF\src\java > > One of my class in the > C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27\webapps\AppName\WEB-INF\src\java\org\ > OrganizationName\content > directory tries to read this > storageDirectory.properties file: > > final String PROPFILE = "storageDirectory.properties"; > Properties oProp = null; > > FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( PROPFILE ); oProp > = new Properties(); oProp.load ( fis ); > > I put this storageDirectory.properties in the > C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27\webapps\AppName\WEB-INF\src\java > directory. > > I then put this storageDirectory.properties in the > C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27\webapps\AppName\WEB-INF\src\java\resources > directory. > > No matter where I put this properties file, I get this > runtime error message: > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > storageDirectory.properties (The system cannot find the file > specified) > > And it points to this statement: > FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( PROPFILE ); > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
