Program: How to load property file using class name in java?

This example shows how to load a property file using class name in java.

package com.java2novice.properties;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

public class MyPropUsingClassName {

	private static Properties prop;
	
	static{
		InputStream is = null;
		try {
			prop = new Properties();
			is = MyPropUsingClassName.class.getResourceAsStream("/sample.properties");
			prop.load(is);
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	
	public static String getPropertyValue(String key){
		return prop.getProperty(key);
	}
	
	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		System.out.println("db.host: "+getPropertyValue("db.host"));
		System.out.println("db.user: "+getPropertyValue("db.user"));
		System.out.println("db.password: "+getPropertyValue("db.password"));
	}
}

db.host: appdomain.java2novice.com
db.user: java2novice
db.password: mypassword