Can the properties file be maintained as part of the EAR or WAR, instead of in \conf (ie. seprately)

[Jeevan Sunkersett]

Hi,

From where does an application (EAR) deployed in Jboss 5.1 GA, load properties from, during start-up.

We curently maintain properties files used by our applcation (EAR) in the \conf folder inside the appropriate server folder, inside Jboss

Typically this is d:\jboss5.1\server\default\conf
The EAR/WAR is deployed in d:\jboss5.1\server\default\deploy

The jboss auto-deployer expands it in d:\jboss5.1\server\default\tmp

Can the properties file be maintained as part of the EAR or WAR, instead of in a separate folder ?

(our application is a j2ee application, using Struts, Spring and Hibernate .... and the database connection pool provided by jboss)

thank you.

Jeevan

PS:

Folder structure of a jboss installation

D:\jboss5.1.G.A\server\default
.
+---conf
+---data
+---deploy
+---deployers
+---lib
+---log
+---work
\---tmp

[Peter Johnson]

The properties file can be loaded into any JAR file that is in the EAR or WAR (the JAR need not contain any classes, it could contain just the properties file(s)). Or it can be placed in the WAR at WEB-INF/classes.