Using property file outside of runnable JAR with spring

What I needed to deliver was quite simple, a runnable jar file configured by a property file located in the same directory as the jar file.

As it turns out, the classpath of runable jar files does not include the execution directory, so i needed to come up with another solution.

That solution turned out to be as simple as the problem, apart from the fact that i spent half a day to figure it out. This was the bean description in the spring context.xml :

<bean id="placeholderConfig" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location" value="classpath:environment.properties"/>
</bean>

and this is what it should look like to get spring to load the property file from the execution path :

<bean id="placeholderConfig" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="location" value="file:environment.properties"/>
</bean>

Getting started with GWT 2.0, GXT and Eclipse

GWT 2.0.3
Ext GWT SDK 2.1.1 for GWT 2.0
Eclipse Galileo

1. download latest GWT 2.0 release from http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/webtoolkit/download.html and unzip it

2. download latest version of GXT for GWT 2.0 from http://www.extjs.com/products/gwt/download.php and unzip it

3. install the eclipse plugin
- in eclipse select "Install new Software" from the "Help" menu
- in the "work with:" field, enter "http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.5" (or see http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/eclipse/docs/download.html for other eclipse versions)

-install the plugin

-restart eclipse

4. set the SDK for the plugin

- select preferences from the Window menu

- Select Google->Web Toolkit

- click "Add..." and browse to the folder where you unpacked GWT

-click "OK"

5. create a GWT 2.0 project

- select file->new->other

- in "Google" select "Web application project"

- click "next"

- enter a name

- enter a package name

- uncheck the box "Use Google App Engine"

- click "Finish"

You now have a new google web toolkit project with an example application. Try to run the example by selecting Run As->Web Application from the Run menu.

Now we need to enable the GWT project to use GXT

in gwt.xml include this line :

<inherits name="com.extjs.gxt.ui.GXT" />

in the default html page [projectname].html add the GXT css :

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ext-all.css">

then copy the 'css' and 'images' directories from the 'gxt dirercotry'/resources to the war directory and you are all set with GWT 2.0 and GXT!