location of property files within .ear

[andy999]

Hi

I just wanted to know where you put property files within a .ear so that classes can use it. At present I have a property file in the same directory as the class that uses it, but it can't seem to find it during runtime.

thanks in advance for any help

regards
andy

[milowe]

You need a valid context to be able to load the file
within the ear (...getResource("/path/propfile").

But you are probably better off not including the prop file in the ear since you dont want to build a new ear if you are changing the file.

You can load the prop file from any location as long as it is in the classpath ( for instance : this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/propfile"))

/micke