Tomcat Extra properties

Tomcat Extra properties allow you to load properties from other files than catalina.properties.

Installation

1. Put tomcat-extra-properties.jar in $CATALINA_HOME/lib
2. Create or edit $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.(sh|bat) to add this line:

export CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/lib/tomcat-extra-properties.jar

set CLASSPATH=%CATALINA_HOME%/lib/tomcat-extra-properties.jar

Usage

Simply reference all the extra properties files with the property catalina.extra.properties.urls as a comma separated list of URLs.

catalina.extra.properties.urls=\
  file://${catalina.home}/catalina.extra.properties,\
  file:///etc/tomcat/catalina.extra.properties,\
  http://example.org/tomcat/catalina.extra.properties