Externalizing Oasis properties for Tomcat in Windows

Externalizing Oasis properties involves configuring Tomcat as a service to make it accessible externally. 

Note: If Tomcat is running as a service, please don’t follow the below steps.

Follow the steps below to expose Tomcat and set up the necessary configurations:

Exposing Tomcat as a Service

• Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to the C:\apache-tomcat-9.0.98\bin directory.

• Run the following command to install Tomcat as a service:
  

• This command creates a new Tomcat service named "tomcat" Users can configure it to start automatically when the server boots.
  

• Create extprop Directory

• • Navigate to the 'tomcat' folder and establish an 'extprop' directory.

  • Place the 'oasis.properties' file within this directory which was extracted from the following path C:\apache-tomcat-9.0.98\webapps\ovaledge\WEB-INF\classes

File Path reference screenshot 

• In the bin folder, locate and open the tomcat9w.exe file or navigate to the tomcat bit folder, open the command prompt in that folder and execute the below command.
  

  Tomcat9w.exe //ES/<service_name>

• Click on the "Java" tab and insert the following parameters under "Java” options:
  

• Set up JAVA_HEAP memory by adding 5120 in the "Initial memory" and 7168 in the "Max memory."
  

• After providing the required parameters, click the "OK" button to save the Oasis properties with the specified configurations. This ensures that the properties are externalized and ready for use.

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