Question

I have created a dynamic web project in Eclipse and have written a simple code to read from properties file.
Here is my code

public class AutocompleteService {

public static void main (String args[])
{
  Properties properties = new Properties(); 
  properties.load(new FileInputStream("autocomplete.properties"));
  System.out.println("Test : " + properties.getProperty("test"));   
}  

When I run this I got file not found exception.

java.io.FileNotFoundException: autocomplete.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)

My package structure is as below

-src
 - com.serive (package)
   - AutocompleteService.java
   - autocomplete.properties   

Both AutocompleteService.java and autocomplete.properties are in same package i.e. com.service.Do we need to anything else to read from properties file ?

Ref: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.util/Props.html

~Ajinkya.

Answer 1

Get the stream relative to your class:

AutocompleteService.class.getResourceAsStream("autocomplete.properties")