Adding property or config files to a project

[anacapa]

using eclipse 3.4.1 Ganymede

want to add property files to the project such as log4.properties and other .properties files. Created a folder config_deploy under the project in project tree. Project is deployed to a geronimo server added to server view, but error says cannot find .property file. What is the proper way to add .properties files to Eclipse?

[Steve11235]

Place your resources (.properties included) in a directory under the src folder. Eclipse will copy this to the bin folder. For example, if your root package name looks like

src/com/mycompany/thisapplication

add a directory

src/com/mycompany/thisapplication/resources

and put everything in there.

At this point, everything can be accessed through the application classpath. Do not use absolute path names, but remember to use the full name of the resource, i.e.

com/mycompany/myapplication/resources/resource.name

See ResourceBundle.getBundle() for .properties, ClassLoader.getSystemResource() for other resources.

[anacapa]

Thanks for your post!! I moved the .properties file under the src directory and it works! :)

I have seen people put .properties files in folders outside of source, beneath the project in the project tree. Do you know how this is done?

[Steve11235]

Java doesn't care where you put your .properties file; it just wants a location.

The reason I said to put it under src is that it becomes part of the project and can always be found using the classpath, including when it's *deployed*.

If you put the .properties outside the classpath, then you have to find it some other way, which is a problem when you deploy your application.