I had the same problem before. I didnt want to configure the location of the
properties file at the tomcat instance level since i had more than one war
file. What i ended up doing is add the properties file configuration on the
application's context file. This meant each war file can point to its own
properties file.
Here is what i do. I add the following line in my META-INF/context.xml file.
(The path can be anywhere on the system)
<Environment name="APP_PROPERTIES"
description="The APP Properties File" override="false"
type="java.lang.String"
value="/u/misc/web/conf/app.properties" />
Then in my code i just access the path using the following code
System.getenv("APP_PROPERTIES");
Note: On a windows environment just change the path to the windows
equivalent
Thanks
HTH
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, hbhartee <himanshubhar...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is a simple way of using properties file across different web
> applications in Tomcat.
>
> > Jar the properties file (included in package folders) and drop it in
> > jakarta-tomcat/common/lib directory
> > If you do not want to jar, just drop the properties file (included in
> > relevant package structure folders) to jakarta-tomcat/common/classes
>
> The properties file would be available to all web applications after Tomcat
> is restarted.
>
> R,
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