How a JAR file can read an external properties file

Question

We have a connection pooling component (JAR file) for one of our application. As of now the application connection details are bundled with-in the JAR file (in .proper

Answer 1

In netbeans I needed to load application.properties from conf/ folder outside of the jar file.

Therefore I wrote :

public static String getProperty(String FileName, String Prop)
{   

    try {  
        FIS = new FileInputStream( "./../conf/"+FileName);
        Properties properties;
        (properties = new Properties()).load(FIS);          

        for(Enumeration propKeys = properties.propertyNames();
                propKeys.hasMoreElements();){
            String tmpKey = (String) propKeys.nextElement();
            String tmpValue = properties.getProperty(tmpKey);                   

            tmpValue = tmpValue.trim();
            if (tmpKey.equals(Prop)){
                //System.out.println(tmpKey +"="+tmpValue);
                properties.put(tmpKey, tmpValue);
                Value = properties.getProperty(Prop);
                break;
            }

        }

        if (Value==null){
            throw new Exception("La Propiedad : "+Prop+" no Se encuentra en el Archivo de Configuracion");
        } 

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return Value;

}

For Eclipse apply the following:

FIS = new FileInputStream( "../conf/"+FileName);