[fightingillini]

I'm trying to get a servlet to access a value key in a .properties file. I need to create a object variable that will ask for the value of a specific key in the .properties file.

Does anyone know how this is done?

Thank you!

[stdunbar]

I'm not positive I follow you. In general to read a .properties file you will do something like:

import java.util.Properties;
import java.net.URL;

Properties properties = new Properties();
URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("something.properties");
properties.load(url.openStream());

//
// the Properties class is just a HashMap of String, String
// so you can access it with
//
String    value = properties.get( "key" );

Note that the way we've gotten the URL to the properties file requires it to be on the System classpath - i.e. the classpath that existed on startup. This may or may not be what you want in a servlet. It is possible that you'll want it on the webapp classpath.