Adding an external directory to Tomcat classpath

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Rajat picture Rajat · Aug 19, 2009 · Viewed 201.3k times · Source

I have a folder in my C: drive as C:\app_config\java_app This folder contains some locale specific property files.

I have a java class (PrjPropertilesLocator) that loads the property files based on default locale on the startup of the web App.My web application is running inside tomcat. The problem is how should i set this directory C:\app_config\java_app in the tomcat classpath so that this becomes available to the ResourceBundle inside the PrjPropertilesLocator class. Is there a way i can set this folder specifically for a Single web app that needs it.I do not want to put the property files inside WEB-INF/classes folder.

On weblogic this runs fine.I set the directory inside the weblogic classpath in one of its startup scripts and it works fine. But on Tomcat i tried putting it in startup.bat also in setclasspath.bat, but was not able to do so successfully.

Answer

BalusC picture BalusC · Dec 8, 2009

Just specify it in shared.loader or common.loader property of /conf/catalina.properties.

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