Hi all,
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: Flavius [mailto:flav...@silverlion.com]
Subject: Location of properties file for web app in Tomcat
1. Where is the best place to put the properties file
if I want it located outside the war itself?
I don't think there's a "best place" that would be applicable to all
environments. One mechanism that is known to work is to have the admin specify a system
property at Tomcat startup indicating where the property file is located; the webapp
looks at the system property during initialization and reads its properties from the
specified location. The name of the system property can be whatever you choose, and
could even include the context path of the webapp to allow multiple instances to be
deployed in one container.
+1
I had the same issue as the OP and the best I could come up with was to
change catalina.sh to include a system property that was then read by
the web app. But we did fall into the same problem of multiple instances
and we just made the system property that pointed to the file more
qualified.
Kirk
