
Deploying Configuration Files in JAR Files
This section provides a procedure and an example for deploying configuration files in JAR files.
Procedure
- Jar the files.
- Set the Apache Geode system properties to point to the files as they reside in the jar file.
- Include the jar file in your
CLASSPATH.
- Verify the jar file copies are the only ones visible to the application at runtime. Geode searches the
CLASSPATH
after searching other locations, so the files cannot be available in the other search areas. - Start your application. The configuration file is loaded from the jar file.
Example of Deploying a Configuration JAR
The following example deploys the cache configuration file, myCache.xml
, in my.jar
. The following displays the contents of my.jar
:
% jar -tf my.jar
META-INF
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
myConfig/
myConfig/myCache.xml
In this example, you would perform the following steps to deploy the configuration jar file:
- Set the system property,
gemfire.cache-xml-file
, tomyConfig/myCache.xml
- Set your
CLASSPATH
to includemy.jar
. - Verify there is no file named
myCache.xml
in./myConfig/myCache.xml
, the current directory location of the file
When you start your application, the configuration file is loaded from the jar file.