Hi Christopher,
indeed i need to have that file externaly from the war; I will not forget
to modify catalina.properties, because this operation will be done only one
time. So i need to adding tha resource in the classpath of tomcat.
2018-07-23 23:33 GMT+02:00 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net
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> Francesco,
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> On 7/23/18 4:58 PM, Francesco Viscomi wrote:
> > Because I need to add a folder (properties) under the tomcat
> > installation in order to read the properties in a file with the
> > following annotation (using spring)
> > @PropertySource("classpath:properties/application.properties");
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> Why not put that file under your application's
> WEB-INF/classes/properties/application.properties?
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> Or, even better, add a <PostResources> element to your application's
> META-INF/context.xml
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> Changing the classpath by using those properties is probably the worst
> way you could accomplish what you are trying to do.
>
> Why is it bad? Because it's not portable, even across two separate
> Tomcat installations. If you forget to modify catalina.properties in
> the target of a move, stuff stops working. But if you bundle that file
> with your application, it will work no matter where you deploy it.
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> - -chris
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Ing. Viscomi Francesco
