Reading a property file from a web service.

Put the property file( lets say file name is myfile.properties) into //axis2/WEB-INF/classes

In java code of your web service, you can use that property file as follows:

InputStreamReader mainPropISR = new InputStreamReader(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/myfile.properties"));
Properties mainPropFile = new Properties();
mainPropFile.load(mainPropISR)

Please note that '/' needed before the property file name in order for axis to read it directly from the class folder. Any other path declarations will taken relative to the current java file.