Well, as I said "at least for Tomcat that is searched first before WEB-INF/lib/*.jar" :-) I don't know the classloading hierarchy in JBoss, maybe that's different.
Switching to the dev-list: Any JBoss expert on the list who can answer this question ? regards, Harry 2009/5/20 <louis.mast...@log-net.com> > OK, I put the changed default.properties file pretty much everywhere in > the war directory and nothing worked. Am I missing something? > > I tried: > WEB-INF/default.properties > WEB-INF/templates/default.properties > WEB-INF/classes/default.properties > WEB-INF/classes/templates/default.properties > WEB-INF/lib/default.properties > WEB-INF/lib/templates/default.properties > <war>/templates/default.properties > > I'm using 2.8.1 under JBoss 4.2 and java 1.5. > > Thanks, > Lou > > > > > > "lgilardon...@gmail.com" <lgilardon...@gmail.com> > 05/20/2009 03:15 AM > Please respond to > jspwiki-user@incubator.apache.org > > > To > jspwiki-user@incubator.apache.org > cc > > Subject > Re: change default.properties in jar > > > > > > > Surely :-) but under classes/templates/default.properties (at least > with 2.8.x) > > L > > Janne Jalkanen wrote: > > > > Probably :-) > > > > /Janne > > > > On 19 May 2009, at 22:43, Harry Metske wrote: > > > >> isn't easier to put the default.properties in WEB-INF/classes ? > >> > >> (at least for Tomcat that is searched first before WEB-INF/lib/*.jar) > >> > >> Harry > >> > >> 2009/5/19 Janne Jalkanen <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com> > >> > >>> > >>> Yeah, you just need to make sure the resource is found first. For > >>> example, > >>> you could package the default.properties into aaa_myproperties.jar, > >>> and that would be found first in the classpath. > >>> > >>> /Janne > >>> > >>> On 19 May 2009, at 21:10, louis.mast...@log-net.com wrote: > >>> > >>> If I want to change a piece of text in the default.properties file > >>> in the > >>>> JSPWiki.jar, how would I go about doing that? Can I override it > >>>> somehow, > >>>> or should I go the unjar-change-jar route? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Lou > >>>> > >>> > >>> > > > > >