I will briefly describe the situation; the ContextListenner class implements the ServletContextListener to call methods from the ConnectionManager class before initializing the context. The ConnectionManager class is used to create a pool of connections for a database. To initialize the pool, I want to use the properties file. To read from the file wrote the following method:

public static String getValue(String key) { try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new FileReader(new File("D:/Java/Projects/Dictionary/properties/dictionaries.properties")))) { Properties p = new Properties(); p.load(br); return p.getProperty(key); } catch (IOException e) { return null; } }

To search for a file, I specify an absolute URL, but I understand that this is not correct. I have a project in one folder, eclipse in another folder, but when I specify a relative address in a method, it searches in the eclipse folder, and not in the project folder. What to do?

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  • getClass (). getResource ("dictionaries.properties") doesn’t it? - Senior Pomidor
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Solved the issue with the ServletContextEvent event:

 event.getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/classes/dictionaries.properties");