Hi! I am using Tomcat 4.1 with J2SDK 1.3.1_08. I have setup a context in C:\1LMS\web-app The LoadProperties.java file is located in: C:/1LMS/web-app/WEB-INF/classes and file.properties in C:/1LMS/web-app/WEB-INF/classes/file.properties My question is, how could I put the file.properties into say /WEB-INF/config without having to specify the fullpath ('coz the instance name could change). final String configFile= "../config/file.properties"; does not seems to work. Thank you.