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[obelix]

hi
I hope I can find help here. I've already googled myself to death, no
solution.

so from the very beginning. I made a tomcat project in eclipse,
deployed and I have put a test.properties file into a classes
directory.

Than I do the following:
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ClassLoader loader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
URL file = loader.getResource("test.properties");
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the loader looks like this:
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WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
repositories:
/WEB-INF/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
StandardClassLoader
delegate: true
repositories:
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\shared\classes\
----------> Parent Classloader:
StandardClassLoader
delegate: true
repositories:
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\classes\
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\ant-launcher.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\ant.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\commons-collections-3.1.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\commons-el.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\commons-pool-1.2.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\jasper-compiler.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\jasper-runtime.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\jsp-api.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\naming-common.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\naming-factory.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\naming-java.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\naming-resources.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\servlet-api.jar
file:E:\Apache\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\tools.jar
----------> Parent Classloader:
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@92e78c
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and my problem is, when I
loader.getResource("test.properties");

I get NULL.
tell my why?? and how can I fix it.

thanks in advance, simon

ps. I have already tried:
1) put test.properties into the "StandardClassLoader" and it works, but
it is not the place of my properties.
2) manipulate the string "test.properties", nothing works