Github user joshelser commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/236#discussion_r108476988
  
    --- Diff: 
start/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/start/classloader/AccumuloClassLoader.java
 ---
    @@ -44,21 +44,21 @@
     
     public class AccumuloClassLoader {
     
    -  public static final String CLASSPATH_PROPERTY_NAME = 
"general.classpaths";
    +  public static final String GENERAL_CLASSPATHS = "general.classpaths";
       public static final String MAVEN_PROJECT_BASEDIR_PROPERTY_NAME = 
"general.maven.project.basedir";
       public static final String DEFAULT_MAVEN_PROJECT_BASEDIR_VALUE = "";
     
    -  private static String SITE_CONF;
    +  private static URL accumuloConfigUrl;
       private static URLClassLoader classloader;
       private static final Logger log = 
LoggerFactory.getLogger(AccumuloClassLoader.class);
     
       static {
    -    String configFile = 
System.getProperty("org.apache.accumulo.config.file", "accumulo-site.xml");
    -    if (System.getenv("ACCUMULO_CONF_DIR") != null) {
    -      // accumulo conf dir should be set
    -      SITE_CONF = System.getenv("ACCUMULO_CONF_DIR") + "/" + configFile;
    +    String configFilename = 
System.getProperty("org.apache.accumulo.config.file", "accumulo-site.xml");
    +    accumuloConfigUrl = 
AccumuloClassLoader.class.getClassLoader().getResource(configFilename);
    +    if (accumuloConfigUrl == null) {
    +      log.warn("Failed to load Accumulo configuration '{}' from 
classpath", configFilename);
    --- End diff --
    
    Is there a reason to require that accumulo-site.xml be on the classpath? 
When I saw the PR title, I initially thought about the log4j configuration 
being able to pull the config file from anywhere.


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