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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