Good Practice for Application-Specific Configuration

[folderol]

Can anybody suggest me where is the best place to keep J2EE-application specific resources which may be changed without redeploying the application itself.

For example, when I used IBM WebSphere, I placed my_app.properties file in WS's properties folder seen by native classloader and loaded it with ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("my_app.properties"). How can I do the same in JBoss. As far as I understand, its classloader does not watch "conf" folder.

[adrian.brock]

You can load properties from conf using
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream()

Good practice is to use env-entrys

Regards,
Adrian