Rose Kad [http://community.jboss.org/people/rkadupuk] replied to the discussion "how to load property file outside of the webapplication in Jboss server?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/542729#542729 -------------------------------------------------------------- continue... it is throwing null pointer exception... but when i do the following it is working System.out.println(ClassLoader.+getSystemClassLoader+().getResource("log4j-debug.properties").getPath()); where log4j-debug.properties is inside the run.jar Similary  I tried with ResourceBundle. It is working for the props inside the run.jar file only. At present I am placing the properties file inside the /server/conf/ folder and changed the property-server.xml and getting the properties using System.getProperty(""); But my question is why the property file inside the run.jar is available but not the property file from the custom lib. Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards, Rose. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/542729#542729] Start a new discussion in Beginner's Corner at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]