title: Sharing properties file from a single location
body: <p>We have Java Enterprise applications deployed on to multiple servers. There are replicated servers running same application to load-balance(let's call them J2EE servers).Note that this is not clustered.</p>
  
  <p>There is a common server (let's call it props server) which hosts all properties files relevant to all applications. The folder containing properties files is NFS shared between all the other J2EE servers.
  The issue is that you can see props server is a single point of failure. If it did not come up or if the NFS share gets corrupted, other servers wont be able to load properties. </p>
  
  <p>What are the options to avoid this hard dependency ?
  Given the constraint that we do not want to duplicate property files to all servers.</p>