You could place a properties file in the same directory as the EJB class file and access it using this.class().getResourceAsStream(prop-file-name). You could place a properties file in server/default/data and access it as follows: String datadir = System.getProperties("jboss.server.data.dir"); File f = new File(datadir + "/" + prop-file-name); View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3987341#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...