读取配置文件properties的问题

有关读取配置文件是的路径问题，我的代码如下：

package cn.itcast;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Properties;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class Demo3 extends HttpServlet {

	//ServletContext读取文件资源
	public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws ServletException, IOException {

	InputStream in=this.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/classes/db.properties");
	Properties pro=new Properties();
	pro.load(in);
	String url = pro.getProperty("url");
	System.out.println(url);
	
	String username = pro.getProperty("username");
	System.out.println(username);
	
	String password = pro.getProperty("password");
	System.out.println(password);
	
	}

	
	public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws ServletException, IOException {
		
	}

}

properties文件的内容如下：

url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test
username=root
password=root

运行时出现的错误提示如下：

2012-11-16 20:10:41 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources
信息: Reloading context [/day05]
2012-11-16 20:11:34 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
严重: Servlet.service() for servlet [Demo3] in context with path [/day05] threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Properties.java:418)
	at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:337)
	at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:325)
	at cn.itcast.Demo3.doGet(Demo3.java:21)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:405)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:964)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:515)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

这里的错误是空指针，也就是文件的路径不对，导致读取文件时找不到文件读取不到内容，所以才说是空指针，并不是什么properties文件有什么错误，所以网上很多的说法是不对的，在建立properties文件时，应该建立在src文件的下面，而不能建立在其他的路径上去，否则会出现如上所示的错误，我不惜花这么大的篇幅写这篇文章就是要告诉自己，在写程序时 的文件的路径的设置时多么的重要；以此为鉴！！！！

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