best place to put properties file in IBM websphere 8.5?

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invariant picture invariant · May 23, 2014 · Viewed 19k times · Source

In our existing application properties file is embedded in a jar file ,we decided to move properties file outside of ear(application) , what is the best place to put properties file in IBM websphere 8.5 ? so that i can retrieve path with WAS Environment variables and file should be available to all nodes in a cluster ..

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Gas picture Gas · Jun 3, 2014

Just my 2 cents in the discussion.

For quick and easy solution I'd put the property file not to the WAS_HOME/classes but to the PROFILE_ROOT/properties - this folder is on the classpath, and its used to store properties anyway. The one benefit over /classes is that is scoped to profile, so if you have different profiles for example for test or integration they may have different settings.

And for 'pure' WebSphere solution, that would allow managing properties via console you could check out the resource environment providers (but its rather long, complicated solution): http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0611_totapally/0611_totapally.html

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