Properties survice auto-deploy

[Bill Winspur]

I use a frontservlet.properties file in my web-inf directory which is picked up by my front servlet (naturally). While testing the servlet, I renamed the file to backServlet.properties, just to exercise the diagnostic code. To my great surprise it made not difference: the servlet continued to find a file called frontservlet.properties. Digging deeper revealed that both frontServlet.properties and backServlet.properties were present in  orion/applications/myapp. It seems that when I auto-deployed my myapp.ear into applications/, the orignal file, frontservlet.properties was not replaced, and the new file backservlet.properties was added alongside it. I deleted the old file to get my test over with, but does anybody know why auto-deploy of myapp.ear does not discard everythng that was in orion/applications/myapp ? TIA Bill.