运行Servlet时出错（Apache Tomcat无法找到.properties文件）

Question

Any other servlet is running fine on eclipse-apache/tomcat integration. But when I add a properties file in one of the classes, i get this error-

HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report

MessageDescription: The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.io.FileNotFoundException: xyz.properties(The system cannot find the file specified) java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) java.io.FileInputStream.(Unknown Source) java.io.FileInputStream.(Unknown Source) xyz.DatabaseConnection(DatabaseAccess.java:23) xyz.HelloServlet.doGet(HelloServlet.java:22) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

Do I have to do some kind of modification in the web.xml file to let it know where the xyz.properties file exists ?

PS - file and package name has been censored with "xyz".

Answer 1

You don not need to edit the web.xml.

ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(classLoader.getResourceAsStream("xyz.properties"));

This assumes that the xyz.properties file is inside the classes folder.

Answer 2

I think the property file is not in the classpath. Please try putting the properties file WEIB-INF/classes folder and see if this resolves this issue.