Question

How can I access a property file called test.property in user.home?

This doesn’t work:

public class Properties {

    private static java.util.Properties p = new java.util.Properties();

    static {
        try {
            String home = System.getProperty("user.home");
            home += "\\test.properties";
            System.out.println("User home: " + home);
            InputStream is = Properties.class.getResourceAsStream(home);
            p.load(is);

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("property file could not be found!");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

File propsFile = new File(home, "test.properties");
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(propsFile);

You will probably find that the user.home is not on the run-time class-path of the application. In that case, use a File instead.