how to configure application from global properties file in

[magdalena.piller]

Hello
I have a problem reading a .properties file from the default/server/conf directory at runtime.
My application uses a property hierarchy to load configuration parameters at runtime. Every module of the app has a properties file, which contains "defaults".
They are packaged in the ear and i can access them no prob.
But i also want a global properties file, where the deployer may overide the configuration of some or all of the module defaults.
The problem is that i can't find the resource (ResourceBundle.getBundle(...) throws MissingResourceException).
I tried to activate/deactivate class loader isolation for my ear, but so far it makes no difference.
I ruled outtypos as well (by putting the global properties in the ear and retrieving it successfully)

What am i missing?
plz help
thx

[peterj]

Try something like this:

String dataDir = System.getProperties("jboss.server.data.dir");
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(dataDir + "global.properties");
Properties globalProp = new Properties();
globalProp.load(is);

[magdalena.piller]

thx, I tried this and the fact that this property was also not set, lead me to the solution: th call was coming form the client side, duh! it ws the only client side call of this method, so i didn't realize for quite some time, but now everything works fine (wrote a service method to delegate)