Tomcat 7 - VirtualWebappLoader - is it a good option to use in production?
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Currently our Ops team has to repackage the war file that we release with instance specific configuration. They are requesting us to externalize the configuration files (log4j.properties, environment.properties, jrf.properties, quartz.properties) out size the war file. That will make the deployment easier.

We are using Tomcat 7 and VirtualWebappLoader in Tomcat 7 looks like a very cool feature to externalize the configuration outside the war file. 

Tomcat 6 documentation explicitly states that "This is not meant to be used for production. Its meant to ease development with IDE's without the need for fully republishing jars in WEB-INF/lib"? 

Tomcat 7 documentation does not say so.

Any idea if VirtualWebappLoader feature can be used in production environment?

Thanks,
Ashish 

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Virtual_webapp

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/api/org/apache/catalina/loader/VirtualWebappLoader.html
