Hi folks, this one is driving me nutso. I'm using getResourceAsStream to load a properties file in a deployed EJB. I've added the properties file into the root of the jar (see below), and tried to load it. The root of the jar -should- be right on the classpath, therefore shoudl be loadable. Other Java folks have said this is proper, not sure why JBoss is not doing it. JBoss 4.0.4-GA... The class looks like: final static String settingsFile = "jena-config.properties"; public static Properties properties ; public static void loadSettings() { [...] Object o=new Object(); properties.load(o.getClass().getResourceAsStream(settingsFile)); [...] The jar file has: dbs@yawl:~/workspace/JENA/dist$ jar tvf JENA-ejb.jar [...] 248 Fri Sep 08 10:44:22 EDT 2006 com/areteinc/ejb3/XMLFetcher.class 1433 Fri Sep 08 11:01:18 EDT 2006 com/areteinc/ejb3/XMLFetcherBean.class 55 Thu Sep 07 12:01:42 EDT 2006 jena-config.properties [...] Constantly throws NullPointerException. No matter how I configure the settingsFile (preceeding '/', etc). Help? What am I missing here? -dbs -- Dave Belfer-Shevett dbs(a)stonekeep.com