Error while reading a property file from a war.

Question

Hi,
I am trying to read a property file which is available in the properties folder.
The piece of code that does this read is as follows.
InputStream is = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("codemap.properties");
System.out.println("Reading file:"+is);
properties.load(is);
The "codemap.properties" file is available in the properties folder.
Following is my directory structure in the war file
sample.war
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|
WEB-INF
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|
classes
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|
properties
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|______ codemap.properties
Inside the war file I have WEB-INF and properties folder.
Inside WEB-INF i have the classes folder which has the classes
Inside the properties folder I have the codemap.properties file.
I am using Jboss. In the class path I have ./properties
I have also added this classpath in the manifest file.
Problem: The piece of code that I have written to read the property file is not able to locate the file and this it returns null.
I am not sure what i am missing here.
If anyone there have any solutions please let me know.
Thanks in Advance
Balaji.

Answer 1

I think you've to change this line
InputStream is = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("codemap.properties");with this.
InputStream is = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("properties/codemap.properties");it is unable to find the path you specified. by default it'll check the WEB-INF directory. so you've to give the relative path to it.
Diablo