Luca: Thanks. Your note helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. The default_en.properties file completely overrides the default.properties file so whenI was changing the default.props with my default.props, it was being overriden by the default default_en.props.
Thanks to all who posted on this. -Lou "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/20/2009 05:30:48 PM: > Well, just checked under tomcat and working fine with > WEB-INF\classes\templates\default_en.properties (i use > default_en.properties so that I just change what I need and all the rest > defaults to default.properties). Did you restarted (I suspect this is > read at startup)? > > Possible however that under jboss (recently checked on tomcat and the > suggested way is guaranteed to work but I believe this depend also on > the container ) order of loading is different. > > Luca > > > [email protected] wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > 05/20/2009 03:15 AM > > Please respond to > > [email protected] > > > > > > To > > [email protected] > > 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 <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> > >>>> 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, [email protected] 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 > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > > > > > > > > >
