Using external properties files in weblogic

Question

I am working on deploying a J2ee application that I have previously been deploying in JBOSS into Weblogic 10.3.1.0. I am running into an issue with external properties file

Answer 1

You can set a directory on the classpath and Place your custom properties file in that folder/directory. So that, the entire directory along with property file will be on classpath. To set the directory on the classpath in weblogic 10.3.x

• Create a folder in %DOMAIN_HOME%\config\ folder. example appConfig.
• Place your custom property file (Let's say config.properties) in appConfig directory/folder.

• Modify the setDomainEnv.cmd (Windows) to include appConfig in the classpath by setting %DOMAIN_HOME%\config\appConfig as value to EXT_POST_CLASSPATH(this variable is already defined in the setDomainEnv.cmd file) variable as below:

  set EXT_POST_CLASSPATH=%EXT_POST_CLASSPATH%;%DOMAIN_HOME%\config\appConfig
  

You can access that file in you java code as below:

    InputStream inputStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream ("config.properties");
    Properties prop = new Properties();
    prop.load(inputStream);
    String value = prop.getProperty("key");

Hope this helps.