Loading a Properties File in a Java Application

Most of the examples I found only rely on servletContext, but this is no use if you aren't using a servlet. Also, there is a quick approach using ResourceBundle, but that approach is limited in how you can load the properties file.

Properties tempProps = new Properties();
        try {
            URL startupPropsURL = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("/test.properties");
            File startupPropsFl = new File(startupPropsURL.toURI());

            try {
                InputStreamReader aRdr = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(startupPropsFl));
                tempProps.load(aRdr);
                aRdr.close();
            } catch (Throwable e) {
                System.out.println("Error occured while trying to load test.properties ");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            System.out.println("Getting log files from "+tempProps.getProperty("foo.baseURL"));
            return tempProps.getProperty("foo.baseURL");
        } catch (Throwable ex) {
            System.out.println("Error occured while trying to read from log.properties ");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }