Question

I have a java singleton class that has my application settings.

I used this approach: What is an efficient way to implement a singleton pattern in Java?

So I have:

public enum MySettings {

   INSTANCE;

   // bunch of private vars


   private MySettings {
     // load a json file and set my properties
     JsonParser parser = jf.createJsonParser(new File("HARD_CODED_PATH_HERE"));
   }

   // public getters/setters here


}

So the problem is the hard coded path I have currently.

I created a settings.properties file in my /WEB-INF/ folder, now the problem is the only way I know how to load a properties file, it requires the servlet context:

Properties prop = new Properties();
propertiesload(getServletContext().....);

Is there another way to load this?

So is this properties file a static representation of the properties file? i.e. it is very fast and effecient?

Answer 1

can you try putting your properties directly under src folder rather than WEB-INF folder?

WORKDIR
+ SRC
| + PACKAGES
| | + org.personal.foo  
| - system.properties
| + WEB-INF