Configuring external configuration files on JBoss AS6

I was reading the guide at http://doc.orbeon.com/xml-platform/resources/external-resources.html but it doesn't mention how to do it with JBoss AS 6.1 (the old version, not the EAP6 version).

It turns out it is quite simple in my case as the use of java system property variables is supported in the web.xml file. Since I already have to use a customised web.xml for our orbeon war to setup the login security settings, adding the following values is no problem and we just need a system property setting on startup of the appserver.

So I added the following to the top of the orbeon war web.xml file and I can now put my configuration-local.xml file in an external location with the rest of our application configuration.

    <context-param>
        <param-name>oxf.resources.priority.0</param-name>
        <param-value>org.orbeon.oxf.resources.FilesystemResourceManagerFactory</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>oxf.resources.priority.0.oxf.resources.filesystem.sandbox-directory</param-name>
        <param-value>${web.app.data}/orbeon</param-value>
    </context-param>

It might be worth adding this to the above documentation which doesn't include a jboss section. No idea if this works for JBoss 7 or later but will find out soon.

I believe this is also supported in JBoss AS7 since 7.1.2 according to the ticket https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4479

Hi Brian,

The idea for this page was to describe a way to install and configure Orbeon Forms without having to do *any* change to the content of the war. But I agree, in some case, changing just the web.xml is acceptable. So I've added a section "With any container" to the doc on:

http://doc.orbeon.com/xml-platform/resources/external-resources.html

Thank you for the suggestion!

Alex