LoadConfiguration.java

import groovy.util.ConfigObject;
import groovy.util.ConfigSlurper;

import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Map;


public class LoadConfiguration {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		
		ConfigSlurper sluper = new ConfigSlurper();
		ConfigObject configObject = sluper.parse(url("application.conf"));
		
		Map properties = configObject.flatten();
		
		System.out.println(properties.get("application.name"));
		
	}

	private static URL url(String path) throws MalformedURLException {
		URI uri = new File(path).toURI();
		URL url = uri.toURL();
		return url;
	}

}