how to move configuration file outside ear

[Klament J. Kruoghst]

Hi there,

I'm building a web application and I want to be able to move one of the property files externaly so that I don't have to re-reploy the whole application when I do a change to this xml file.
Any ideas how to achieve this?

Oh and I'm using Ant to build my webapp if that helps.

[Santhosh ayiappan]

Create a seperate path to place all the configuration files and define that path in your code where it is referred.

You can use the below steps to reload it when you make any changes instead of recycling your server.

1. Create your own servlet to reload the cache when ever it is modified.
2. Use the Commons api to reload the configuration whenever it is modified
Commons API

[Klament J. Kruoghst]

Thanks for the response.

I'm not too clear on #1 tho so I'm gonna go ahead straight to #2, I just need to upload some queue names so that shouldn't need step #1 I don't think.

Thanks again!