Is it faster to access a property file or static constants from a class file?

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Published on 2010-04-27T15:17:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 15:23 UTC
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I develop a webservice application in a tomcat container, I have a lot of properties for the webapp like constants, error messages and so on.

What is the better and faster way to?

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