database.properties outside of my deployed jar file

[pdelaney]

Hello;

I am sure my problem is a common problem, but I cannot seem to find an solution in the forums.

I have a Java application that uses Spring/Hibernate. I package this application up into a batch.jar file that contains all of my class files and applicationContext.xml files. I am also using PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer in my applicationContext.xml file to load my database specific information. This information is contained in a file called 'database.properties'

I am trying to run my batch on the UNIX command line like the following.
java -classpath $HOME/lib/batch.jar:$HOME/properties/database.properties com.putnam.fams.batch.BatchProcessMain

Spring keeps failing because it cannot find the database.properties file. When I put the database.properties file inside of the batch.jar file it works fine. I need to have it outside of the jar so I am able to change it.

Any help would be appreciated or please send me to a similar post.

Thanks
Peter

[Mike Bingham]

Have you tried setting just the directory where your properties file lives in your CLASSPATH instead of the full file name? For example:

java -classpath $HOME/lib/batch.jar:$HOME/properties com.putnam.fams.batch.BatchProcessMain

Then, something like the following for your PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer:

<bean  class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="location" value="classpath:database.properties"/>
</bean>

[pdelaney]

Hello; Thanks for that response. I got dragged into another direction so I wasn't able to respond. This works; I appreciate your help. Thank You Peter

[manish_Springbatch]

Hi, I am using -jar option instead of classpath option.
/opt/java/bin/java -jar /opt/testhrjobs/script/gmsglp/java1/gmsglp_batch.jar glprunner.xml glpFeed

the last two arguments are paramaters to main function of the first class that would be invoked.

Can you please help to frame command to refer a file(data.txt) which sits in
/opt/testhrjobs/data/gmsglp/incoming/data.txt folder? PLease note code is in script folder and data.txt is in data folder.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mansih G

[nanidknight]

Hello,
can u tell me the way how it worked... iam dying with it..

where am using this
nohup java -cp "lib/com.ibm.mqjms.jar:lib/com.ibm.mq.jar:lib/commons-io-2.1.jar:lib/j2ee.jar:lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.jms-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:lib/dhbcore.jar" -jar rxdatatransfer.jar rxtConfig.xml >& /dev/null &

[nanidknight]

Hello,
can u tell me the way how it worked... iam dying with it..

where am using the following

nohup java -cp "lib/com.ibm.mqjms.jar:lib/com.ibm.mq.jar:lib/commons-io-2.1.jar:lib/j2ee.jar:lib/org.springframework.transaction-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.jms-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.expression-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.core-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.context.support-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.context-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.beans-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/org.springframework.asm-3.0.7.RELEASE.jar:lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:lib/dhbcore.jar" -jar rxdatatransfer.jar rxtConfig.xml >& /dev/null &

in this case where to include the .properties file...