Adding a directory to tomcat classpath and read the property file in spring

Question

I am trying to read the test1.properties file which is located at an external folder.

here is my spring config file:

Answer 1

Ok.. finally fixed it.. I had been doing it correctly this whole time.. it was my IDE which caused the problem. The IDE was not picking up the changes in the catalina.properties file. I had to delete the server config in my IDE and re configure it.

these links were helpful in general:

Adding a directory to tomcat classpath

http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-classpath#solutions