Interesting Loading Properties or files in Servlet Context

I was reading the documentation on tomcat in the web to be sure not to miss important information. And I found this at this wiki FAQ:

How do I load a properties file? Here are the two most popular ways:

• Use a ResourceBundle. See the Java docs for the specifics of how the ResourceBundle class works. Using this method, the properties file must go into the WEB-INF/classes directory or in a jar file contained in the WEB-INF/lib directory.

• Another way is to use the method getResourceAsStream() from the ServletContext class. This allows you update the file without having to reload the webapp as required by the first method. Here is an example code snippet, without any error trapping:

  // Assuming you are in a Servlet extending HttpServlet
  // This will look for a file called "/more/cowbell.properties" relative
  // to your servlet Root Context
  InputStream is = getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/more/cowbell.properties");
  Properties p = new Properties();
  p.load(is);
  is.close();