External properties file with Weblogic

Question

I\'m looking for the best way to use an external properties file with an application that is going to be deployed on Weblogic 10.3 server. I read a number of articles on the

Answer 1

Approach #1

Update your server startup script to pass below system variable to JVM (below is example on Windows OS)

call "%DOMAIN_HOME%\bin\startWebLogic.cmd" "-Dcom.mycompany.myapp.EXTERNAL_CONFIG_PATH=/mycompany/myapp/config" %*

Using this variable which points to your configuration directories, read configurations from there. You will need to make this setting on each server where you want to deploy your application.