resources in multi war or ear application

[Karthik Rajendiran]

I am developing one application, where we need to maintain some application configuration in a properties file. and some messages in another properties file

file1: config.properties
file2: appMesages.properties

This application consists of 2 war[1 webservices, 1 normal web UI] and 1 ear [mdb] going to be deployed in oc4j.


q1) Since i have 2 war, 1 ear, where can i keep this resources files and make it use across the application in the domain.

Normally what is the best practise followed for this