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Running the TIBCO stack on a RHEL 4.7 environment I recently hit a problem where uploading a new .ear file through the Adminstrator console would error and render a blank page.  Some digging into the logs yielded an error when trying to write to a temporary folder that was under /tmp.  Restarting the entire system [...]

Found a great article at carbonfive.com on how to configure application with Spring utilizing various techniques.  My favorite from this article is included below:

Optional External Properties

There’s another use case that applies to some projects. Often in non-developer environments, system admins want to keep properties for the environment outside of the deployable archive or the application [...]