378 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
As a result, you must manually unpack the EAR file, extract the property file, and modify it.
Then you must re-create the EAR file again and redeploy the application. This approach
results in complicated administration and limits flexibility. Therefore, be careful if you plan to
package the properties file inside the EAR file.
An alternative when distributing the property files within the EAR file is to extract them from the
EAR file after deployment. You then place them in a folder separate from the EAR file. An
example of a folder name suitable for that is the
dmgr_profile_home\config\cells
\cell_name\configData
folder on the deployment manager system. Anything in that ...