Question

I am migrating a project to a servlet.
I put the jars in the lib directory, the compiled classes in classes directory.
However, I have some files (properties, a wsdl file) that I am loading and reading in my application. For example this is how I am loading my properties:

try {
    InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("my.prop"));
    myConfig.load(in);
} catch (Exception e) {
    logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
}

Where do those files that I am loading go?

Answer 1

They usually go straight in the classpath so that you aren’t dependent on the current working directory of the local disk file system. But you’ve got to change the way how you’re getting an inputstream:

InputStream in = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("my.prop");

See also:

• Where to place and how to read configuration resource files in servlet based application?
• getResourceAsStream() vs FileInputStream