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I am trying to deploy a SpringBoot project onto Weblogic 12c. According to this spring article I edited my SpringBootApplication class to implement WebApplicationInitializer interface.

I removed below lines from the POM

   <plugin>

    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>

    <version>${spring.boot.dependency.version}</version>

    <executions>

     <execution>

      <goals>

       <goal>repackage</goal>

      </goals>

     </execution>

    </executions>

   </plugin>

Since there is no need for repackaging to executable archive.

I added below:

   <plugin>

    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>

    <version>3.2.2</version>

    <configuration>

      <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>

    </configuration>

  </plugin>

Since I want to package the app as WAR file and I don't have a web.xml(I use annotation-based configuration) so I don't want the packaging to fail.

Also, I added below to set the packaging to WAR:

<packaging>war</packaging>

So far so good. I do mvn clean install and my WAR package is ready with all the dependencies as JAR files inside the WAR archive of my web app.

When I try to deploy this war file I get this error:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/myfile.properties]
Could not open ServletContext resource [/myfile.properties]

I check if the mentioned properties file was in the package and there it was inside one of the JARs in the WAR file.

This is the structure of the JAR file:

META-INF

com

myfile.properties

So the properties file is in the root of the JAR archive as expected.

In that JAR archive one of the classes are trying to load the properties file using @PropertySource annotation as below:

@Configuration

@PropertySource("myfile.properties")

public class MyConfigClassForThisApp{



}

In another class the values are read as below:

@Value("${some.key}")

private String keyValue;

I understand that WebLogic classpath is not the same as the Tomcat classpath. So, I think I need to configure the WebLogic classpath to see this properties file. How can I do that?

OR maybe I should change the way I refer to this properties file and instead of using @PropertySource annotation, I should do something like:

this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream()

and wrap the properties file in a Properties class then read the values?

Please note that I would like to avoid changing the code whenever I can.
What would be the best way to make the WebLogic server see my configuration class with as little code/config modification as possible? Also, my WAR has other JARs inside and many of them have properties files like this. Whatever solution I can come up with will be applied multiple times for other properties files inside other JARs.

Note: I am deploying the application on a test environment on AdminServer.

Note: I placed the properties files in %WEBLOGIC_HOME%/user_projects/domains/MYDOMAIN as suggested here, it didn't work.