"jcstaff2" wrote : When I did some searching, I found that Tom Marrs (Lead Author, JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide) had the same solution as I did as late as 2006. http://www.coderanch.com/t/89900/JBoss/reading-properties-file Respectfully disagree. "Tom Marrs" wrote : The EJB specification forbids EJBs to use the Current Class Loader, and since the System Class Loader isn't a workable option, you're left with the Thread Context ClassLoader. It's this which I say is wrong. "Sun EJB Restrictions Guide" wrote : Read-only data can, however, be stored in files in a deployment JAR, and accessed with the getResource() or getResourceAsStream() methods of java.lang.Class. http://java.sun.com/blueprints/qanda/ejb_tier/restrictions.html S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246596#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...