Reading properties file under WEB-INF

Question

I have a webapplication on Java spring. I need to read application specific settings when the application will be initialized. I have added app.properties under WebContent/WEB-INF but I am not able to get that file from the class. If I provide InputStream input = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("WEB-INF/spring.properties"); prop.load(input);

then it is showing file is not present. I can not use absolute path. What will be the path?

Why aren't you letting Spring load the properties? Why are you messing around with that yourself? — M. Deinum, Sep 09 '15 at 12:54
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32195550/use-properties-file-in-spring/32196546#32196546 . — M. Deinum, Sep 09 '15 at 13:00

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '15 at 13:18

From the Javadoc ServletContext.getResource:

The path must begin with a / and is interpreted as relative to the current context root, or relative to the /META-INF/resources directory of a JAR file inside the web application's /WEB-INF/lib directory.

Therefore try

InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/<filename>");

Reading properties file under WEB-INF

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