On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Java Poop wrote:
> Hey guys-
>
> I'm trying to figure out way to separate my initialization parameters
> from my application.war file. Because certain things are different
> between dev, qa and live machines (such as database hostname,
> username, password, etcs), I rather not put these values in the
> web.xml file. (The web.xml would be stuck in the application.war file
> and I don't want the deployment people to unjar it in a deployment
> setting to change the values of web.xml).
>
> So, I'm looking at trying to setup my own properties file that a
> singleton class would read in my web application and set as global
> variables for all my servlets/jsps. However, I'm having trouble
> writing the code to open up the properties file. I'd like to put the
> properties file in %TOMCAT_HOME%/settings directory (I made this
> directory up and added it to the classpath in my tomcat.bat file).
>
> >From some previous posts on this list, I'm trying :
>
> InputStream stream =
> this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("testApp.properties");
>
This is supposed to work if you store the testApp.properties file in
WEB-INF/classes, *and* your servlet class itself was loaded from either
WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib.
> But it fails. If I use a File stream and point right at the file, it
> does load. Just as a test, I tried copying this file to the same
> location where the class was, as well as myapplication/WEB-INF/classes
> and myapplication/WEB-INF/lib, and still could not get the file
> loaded.
>
> What would be the proper way to have this loaded (preferably in the
> settings directory since I can't rely on my war file being unjar'd by
> future tomcats).
>
> BTW- I'm using Tomcat 3.2.1 in Standalone, Win2K, JDK1.3.
>
> Thanks in advance, JP
>
What I do for things like this is to put configuration files like this in
the WEB-INF directory of my webapp. Then, I can call:
InputStream is =
getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/testApp.properties");
which will work when the WAR is either packed or unpacked.
Craig McClanahan
