How to load a properties from path that is relative to the classpath

Question

Hello;
I need to load a set of properties from a propertie file from inside and EJB. I need to do so that I don't set the full absoulte path of the property file. In brief I don't want to be dependent on the file system struture instead I want to read the property file relatively to the package path name.
Here is my code:
package packagename.com;
import packagename.com.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PropDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
public static final String PROP_FILE_NAME
= "configuration.properties";
File inputFile = new File(PROP_FILE_NAME);
Properties prop = new Properties();
try {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
prop.load(fis);
} catch (Exception e) {
Any body have an idea how to so.
Regards
mal

Answer 1

I realize that you are trying to be a pain in the arseNot really. I know that I spent about a day figuring it out and that was after skirting around the issue for a about a year.
with that reply, but we can look here:
public void load(InputStream inStream) throws
IOExceptionReads a property list (key and element pairs) from the
input stream. The stream is assumed to be using the
ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
The original post suggests the author already knows how to load from a file. So this doesn't help at all.
And possibly GASP cross reference this entry in
Class:
public InputStream getResourceAsStream(String name)Finds a resource with a given name. This method
returns null if no resource with this name is found.
The rules for searching resources associated with a
given class are implemented by the defining class
loader of the class.
Now you may equivocate that the docs don't
specifically state that the classpath is where
resources are searched for, but I would maintain that
any Java developer worth anything should know this.Really? So where, in the above entry, does it explain the impact of the "/" character at the beginning of the string?
I know how classes are searched for. I know the impact of the class path. How that impacts a 'resource' is less clear. Particularily since the "/" character has nothing to do with loading classes.
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This should be Java 101. Advanced Topics should be
something that affect people who have programmed Java
for years. (This is usually something that first year
programmers work out). If this is representitive of
the kinds of questions that qualify as "Advanced" then
this forum will become basically useless.So an opposing opinion...this is an advanced topic. Nothing in the java docs makes it clear. And it is even less clear the context of a container.