how to read file.properties

Question

I have a project organized this:

-LIBRERIA CLIENT/
   -SRC/
     -CONNECTION/
      CONNECTIONdB.JAVA
      CONFIG.PROPERTIES

In CONNECETIONDB I have this code to read the CONFIG.PROPERTIES file:

public static void connect() throws RemoteException
{
        //read file config.properties:
        String dbHost="",dbUser="",dbPassword="";
        Properties prop=new Properties();
        try
        {
            //load il file:
            prop.load(new FileInputStream("src/Connectionconfig.properties"));
            //read the property of file
            dbHost=prop.getProperty("host");
            dbUser=prop.getProperty("user");
            dbPassword=prop.getProperty("password");
        }catch(FileNotFoundException fe){
            System.out.println("File not found");
        }catch(IOException ex){
            System.out.println("Error reading configuration file");
        }

But I have this error:

     FILE NOT FOUND

Could someone tell me where am I going wrong?

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING? If the file wasn't found, it means the file was not where you tried to load it from. — Peter Lawrey, Sep 18 '12 at 11:04
If the application reads in a Webapplication context this post may help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2308188/getresourceasstream-vs-fileinputstream — Binu, Sep 18 '12 at 11:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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That's easy: your code is executed in different folders from your project_root. Moreover: src/Connectionconfig.properties does not exists: it should be SRC/CONNECTION/CONFIG.PROPERTIES, if you execute project from project_root.
Also look at this to get current working directory: Getting the Current Working Directory in Java

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Sep 18 '12 at 11:08

popfalushi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 18 '12 at 11:30

Your code read Connectionconfig.properties file under src but according to your project structure only CONFIG.PROPERTIES exists under SRC/CONNECTION. Change to

  prop.load(new FileInputStream("SRC/CONNECTION/CONFIG.PROPERTIES"));

instead of

  prop.load(new FileInputStream("src/Connectionconfig.properties"));

how to read file.properties

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