在java中创建独立包并从配置文件中获取一些设置

Anyone plz let us know what to do when we have some configuration file which is basically xml.I want to for example give the path to save the image(for my java program) in a folder from some config file (xml in my case).In that case where should the config file be kept.Rt now every thing is converted to jar file when i create a java standalone package.But i want to give some setting from xml file.What to do in that case.How is it possible.This article only provides to create a single jar file for java project but talks nothing about the configuration settings that u can provide from some external source.Anyone plz let us know what to do when we have