[jboss-user] [JBossWS] - reading a local properties file

I'm writing a POJO/servlet based JAXWS web service on JBoss 4.0.5 w/ JBossWS 1.2.1. I'm trying to use a properties files located at /WEB-INF/properties.xml but I can't find the file. The only way I can seem to get the web service classes to find the properties file is to use an absolute URI from C: which is totally unworkable for production. Using this code: if ( !(new File(propertiesPath).exists()) ) | { | log.fatal("NOT FOUND: " + propertiesPath ); | } | This fails, I've tried variations, but can't seem to find the path: public static final String propertiesPath = "properties.xml"; This works, public static final String queriesPath = "C:/Documents and Settings/tx714c/workspace/NlsAssociationService341/WEB-INF/properties.xml"; and if I assume that '...\workspace' is my local dir, I can use a relative path. But I can't get a path local to the WAR file to work. Here's the listing of the war file: | C:\Documents and Settings\tx714c\My Documents\workspace\ShimWS3.4.1>jar -tf gen\NlsAssociationServic | e341.war | META-INF/ | META-INF/MANIFEST.MF | WEB-INF/ | WEB-INF/web.xml | WEB-INF/classes/ | WEB-INF/classes/com/ | ... | WEB-INF/classes/org/soapinterop/xsd/ValidationException.class | WEB-INF/lib/ | ... | WEB-INF/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar | WEB-INF/properties.xml | WEB-INF/queries.xml | How do I access and load a local properties file from within the war? Thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125631#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...