Hi,

My question is primarily to understand how the classpath of an application is setup in JBoss. I want to move the location of certain properties files and make sure my applications can read them. I want to share the property files between different applications.

Currently, I am running 3 applications on JBoss 4.0.1RC1 (default config) on Win XP.

MainApp.ear has the following dir structure:

MainApp.ear
 --- MainApp.jar (contains classes)
 --- MainApp_EJBs.jar (only contains EJBs)
 --- main.war
 --- JSPs
 --- WEB-INF/lib/properties.jar
 --- WEB-INF/lib/all_other_jars

The classes in MainApp.jar are able to successfully read the .properties files in properties.jar.

The other two applications are say, App1.war and App2.war.

I want to make the MainApp properties files hot-deployable (they are right now too, but I have to rebuild the EAR everytime I want to make a change in a property file) and I want to be able to keep them unpackaged. I also want to be able to share the properties files of MainApp with App1 and App2.

How is it possible to do all this? Is it possible? I've read quite a few posts and the properties.jar method seems like the best way to go, but its quite limiting. What do you do when you want to change properties on the fly?

Thanks..