Setting the location of a properties file via PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

[peternorman]

I am running inside of JBoss and my application is contained within a war file. I would like to have a properties file outside of the war file that the user can modify.

My company generally keeps all external files and what not under the jboss.server.home.dir /Data/Properties directory. The problem I have is setting the location of the properties file via the applicationContext.xml since I need to access the jboss.server.home.dir in order to find out the fully qualified path.

Do I need to create the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer inside my code and then set the location and have it run the postProcessBeanFactory?

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help I receive.

[Chris Lee]

You can instantiate a PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer in your application context, configure it to look at system properties, and then use ${jboss.server.dir} which JBoss exposes as a system property

[karldmoore]

I would say Chris is spot on! We are actually doing something very similar at the moment, it works great.

For your reference.
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...lderconfigurer
http://static.springframework.org/sp...onfigurer.html

[peternorman]

Thanks for the help Chris worked like a charm.