I am trying to create a .JAR from a package that I have been working on and have run into a problem. I want a user to be able to modify the properties with which the program is run. 

My package's folder structure looks like this:

```
├───src
│   ├───main
│   │   ├───java
(...)
│   │   └───resources
│   │           dbinterface.properties

```

and I want to override the dbinterface.properties file with one that the user places in the same folder as the jar (or in a `./config` folder alongside it).

I have tried adding `.` to the classpath in the MANIFEST.MF, but that did not work, unfortunately.