Hi, I have an MBean, which along with other files is deployed as a .sar file in my application. I need to setup a properties file which will be read from this MBean file. I created a custom.properties file and placed it in META-INF. To read it, I tried the following commands: 1) this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("custom.properties") 2) ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource("/META-INF/custom.properties") 3) File props = new File("/META-INF/custom.properties"); None of these seem to work, I get null in return. I do not have to place the file in META-INF, but I did this for my web application and read it in a servlet using - file = "/META-INF/custom.properties"; config.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(file); and it worked. I think the problem is that my java class cannot read the file from within the .sar file. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3990112#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...