Help: running servlets on IIS

[Raghusimha Sudhakara <rs...@pcs-mail.com>]

Hello, I had a very simple question that I have been struggling with and
any help on which I would greatly appreciate. I am trying to run
servlets on IIS using tomcat below IIS. I have an external *.properties
file that contains all the initial arguments for my servlet. Can anybody
tell me how I can get this properties file loaded every time the servlet
is invoked by the browser.

I tried giving the properties name and file location in the web.xml file
in the init param section but I still get an error message in the
browser saying it did not find the file. I have tried both
C:\jakarta-tomcat.... and, the partial \WEB-INF\.... as the param value.
I heard an other option is to extend init and load the file. Details
regarding any of this will be greatly appreciated. I am new to most of
this stuff.... Please help!!!

Thanks.

Raghu