How to place a file on classpath in Eclipse

Question

As this documentation says   For example if you place this jndi properties file on your classpath   but how can I place the  properties file on my classpath if I am using Eclipse

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One option is to place your properties file in the src  directory of your project   This will copy it to the  classes   along with your  class files  at build time   I often do this for web projects

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Well one of the option is to goto your workspace  your project folder  then bin copy and paste the log4j properites file  it would be better to paste the file also in source folder   Now you may want to know from where to get this file  download smslib  then extract it  then smslib- misc- log4j sample configuration -  log4j  here you go   This what helped me so just wanted to know

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Copy the file into your src folder  Go to the Project Explorer in Eclipse  Right-click on your project  and click on  Refresh   The file should appear on the Project Explorer pane as well

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This might not be the most useful answer  more of an addendum  but the above answer  from greenkode  confused me for all of 10 seconds     Add Folder  only lets you see folders that are the sub-folders of the project whose build path you are looking at   The  Link Source  button in the above image would be called  Add External Folder  in an ideal world    I had to make a properties file that is to be shared between multiple projects  and by keeping the properties file in an external folder  I am able to have only one  instead of having a copy in each project

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Just to add  If you right-click on an eclipse project and select Properties  select the Java Build Path link on the left  Then select the Source Tab  You ll see a list of all the java source folders  You can even add your own  By default the  project  src folder is the classpath folder

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