You have a few solution which are not JBoss specific, like looking for the file in the filesystem try | { | url = new File(fileName).toURL(); | is = url.openStream(); | return is; | } | catch (MalformedURLException ignore) | { | } | catch (IOException ignore) | { | | } or in the current classpath: url = | Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(fileName); | if (url != null) | { | try | { | return url.openStream(); | } | catch (IOException ioe) | { | | } | } With JBoss you have one service named "Properties MBean Service" which allows loading a property file from an available URL. See this tip : http://www.mastertheboss.com/en/jboss-howto/42-jboss-config/151-how-to-in... Hope it helps Francesco View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250488#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...