Loading a configuration file from the classpath

Question

I\'m working on making my Java app easy to deploy to other computers and am writing an ant script to do so, that is going fine.

I\'m having trouble loading resources

Answer 1

You can use the log4j.configuration system property when you startup your application:

java -Dlog4j.configuration=config/log4j.properties MyApp

See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html under "Default Initialization Procedure".

Regarding the other configuration files not being picked up, what does your Manifest.mf file looks like? Are you using something like

Class-Path: config/configuration.xml lib/yourLibOne.jar lib/blah.jar

in your Manifest.mf file?