Configure Tomcat to use properties file to load DB connection information

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We often distribute webapps by providing a WAR, and a Context XML file, which gets placed into your tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost directory, and can load the webapp from any path. There is a reference document here. This provides the following advantages:

  • Context parameters can be configured here and read by the webapp
  • DataSources can be defined and configured here
  • The WAR can actually live anywhere on the filesystem, which means that if Tomcat gets upgraded, only this single configuration file needs to be moved to the new Tomcat install, the web application and any other files can stay where they are

If you really want a properties file, you can set a parameter in the context XML file pointing to your properties file, read the parameter in a ServletContextListener and then read in the properties file.

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