Reading properties file in Webspehere

Hi All,
I am using a web application which uses a prperties file containing JNDI url (DB userID and password also ). This properties file is not packaged inside the war and kept in a folder named config. I have worked on App servers like Resin and Tomcat, I usually place the config folder in the server root, lets say Tomcat\config or resin\config and it works fine with both.
But when it comes to Webspehere, I have kept the folder in WAS Root/config and even WAS Root/Appserver/profiles/server name(eg. Appsrv01)/config, but it seems not to be working.
- Is there any other place where I'll have to place the folder ?
- Are there any configuration changes that need to be done for the properties file to be read ?
just to give you idea of the logic I use to read the properties file is :
public class PropertyManager
Properties property;
public PropertyManager()
// create and load default properties
try
property = new Properties();
property.load(new FileInputStream("config/systemProperties.properties"));
catch (IOException e)
e.printStackTrace();
public String getProperty(String propertyKey)
String value = property.getProperty(propertyKey);
return value;
public static void main(String[] args)
System.out.print(new PropertyManager().getProperty("user"));
Can anybody help me regarding this ??
Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Partha

Well there are two things involved here one of them is folder/directory permissions applied on the location which you are talking about.I'd say you might have to test on the user profile on which WAS service is currently running and a recommendation would be if i were i'd have posted in around respective user.home folder on to which i'd nt any messups with permissions on folder.

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