Load Properties file that resides inside WEB-INF

Intention: Load the rcs.properties values in your application that is located insideWEB-INF folder.

I used the following code but it gave me error.

 Properties properties = new Properties();  
 properties.load(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("rcs.properties"));  

Error:

 java.lang.NullPointerException  
      at java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Properties.java:418)  
      at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:337)  
      at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:325)  
      at com.project.rcs.controller.CommonTransaction.home(CommonTransaction.java:244)  
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)  
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)  
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)  

Solution

 Properties properties = new Properties();        
 properties.load(servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/rcs.properties"));  
 /*load the property that is inside your file*/  
 properties.getProperty("urls")  

Also if still doesn't work, you need to add a configuration in your weblogic. Include the following script in your weblogic.xml

  <container-descriptor>  
   <show-archived-real-path-enabled>true</show-archived-real-path-enabled>  
  </container-descriptor>