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tomcat 5.5 - problem with reading resource files

public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
String pathToFile = config.getServletContext().getRealPath("")
  + "/WEB-INF/config.properties";
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(new FileInputStream(pathToPropertiesFile));
}