loading properties file from WEB-INF instead of WEB-INF/classes

[Thufir]

getPropsFromWebINF works so long as the properties file is within the package of
the class (/.  However, I'd like to put the properties file under WEB-INF:


    public void getPropsFromWebINF() throws IOException {
        Properties p = new Properties();
        InputStream is;
        is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("sqljdbc4.properties");
        p.load(is);
        log(p.toString());
    }


I've seen mention of using:

System.getenv("APP_PROPERTIES");

in conjunction with a context (context.xml under META-INF) along the lines of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/A00720398sat">
    <Environment name="APP_PROPERTIES"
                 description="The APP Properties File" override="false"
                 type="java.lang.String"
                 value="/WEB-INF/app.properties" />
</Context>


however, I'm not able to get the environment, I just get a null value.


What's the correct, and simple, idiom?  (Staying away from jndi and dbcp for
now, and, oddly enough, servlets in this case.)



Actually, I suppose in a sense it's in WEB-INF:

dtc01l0376-06:~ a00720398$ 
dtc01l0376-06:~ a00720398$ jar -tfv
NetBeansProjects/A00720398sat/dist/A00720398sat.war | grep sql
   498 Sat Apr 17 14:36:14 PDT 2010 
WEB-INF/classes/controller/sqljdbc4.properties



however, I'd like to move it from WEB-INF/classes up to just WEB-INF.



thanks,

Thufir


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