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Subject: Re: [component]commons.configuration.PropertiesConfiguration - load
 properties from classpath
From: Ralph Goers <ralph.goers@dslextreme.com>
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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:34:00 -0700
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In our environment we want the configuration files to reside outside the =
application. In JBoss, we place the files in default/server/configs. In =
our startup script we add that directory to the -cp. We use this for =
commons configuration's files but also for several other things that =
looke for their files in the classpath.

Ralph

On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Rashid Jilani wrote:

> It depends in which context you need to load resource, web or desktop
> application.
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> In desktop application let's say you have the root application in the =
folder
> Foo and there is a folder config under folder Foo where you have your
> configuration file name config.xml, you can use something like this
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> String nativeFileSeperator =3D System.getProperty("file.separator");
>        String currentDirectory =3D System.getProperty("user.dir");
>        String configurationFile =3D currentDirectory + =
nativeFileSeperator +
> config +  nativeFileSeperator + 'config.xml';
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> In case of web application you can use the servletcontext. =
getContextPath()
> which will return the application path of the current context, then =
you can
> load the resources in the relative folders under the current context =
path.
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> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 2:51 PM
> To: user@commons.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [component]commons.configuration.PropertiesConfiguration =
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> properties from classpath
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> Yeah, you have right. I works, but what if I'd like to put my =
.properties
> files elsewhere not in the root of my source folder. What should I =
write in
> the vm arguments to accomplish this and how should  I reference to the
> specified .properties file from code? Sorry if I am on the wrong way.
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