[rules-users] RuleAgent in webservice

Hi All, I am using drools API, and developed a webservice out of it. I created rule binary package using BRMS Guvnor. I used RuleAgent to acces the properties file. ie RuleAgent agent = RuleAgent.newRuleAgent("/ application.properties"); "application.properties" file was stored in current working directory. I executed my application using eclipse, it was fine . For testing purpose i deployed the application in tomcat application server. Now it is unable to find "application.properties" file. and shows following in "catalina.out" file: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Properties.java:418) at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:337) at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:325) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.loadFromProperties(RuleAgent.java:299) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.newRuleAgent(RuleAgent.java:256) My question is, in which location should i keep the "application.properties" file , so that RuleAgent can access it. Could you please tell me the solution. Thanks & Regards Shekhar