Commons Configuration properties.xml

properties.xml

<configuration>
  <header>
    <result delimiterParsingDisabled="true" forceReloadCheck="true">
        <nodeCombiner config-class="org.apache.commons.configuration.tree.OverrideCombiner"/>
    </result>
  </header>
  <override>
    <properties fileName="/usr/local/tomcat6/conf/application.override.properties">
        <reloadingStrategy config-class="org.apache.commons.configuration.reloading.FileChangedReloadingStrategy"/>
    </properties>
    <properties basePath = "/" fileName="application.properties">
        <reloadingStrategy config-class="org.apache.commons.configuration.reloading.FileChangedReloadingStrategy"/>
    </properties>
  </override>
</configuration>