I would say something like the database config / connection string would be the only thing that *needs* to stay in the configs.
So if everything else moved to the DB, then that could be easily/safely modified in an admin section of the user interface, by the admin user. Somewhat like modifying settings. Peter Dietz Systems Developer/Engineer Ohio State University Libraries On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 02:17:01PM +0000, Tim Donohue (JIRA) wrote: > > (Sidenote: Eventually, someday, I feel we should move the majority of all > configurations to the Admin UI -- so that there's no need to stop/start > Tomcat/DSpace every time you need to modify dspace.cfg. However, in order > to achieve this, we need to *trust* that the System Administrator knows what > he/she is doing -- they should be allowed to make any change in the system.) > > If runtime reconfiguration is a goal, we need to agree on it (and I'm > not disagreeing here) and then go through the code to make sure that > we *always* call the ConfigurationManager for settings instead of > e.g. caching config. data via static initializers. > > Item for next week's agenda? > > We'll also need to stare hard at each of the configuration variables > and work out which ones make sense to adjust at runtime. > > Absolutely, the sysadmin. is allowed to break anything, so long as he > is prepared to answer for it. :-) I expect that (both aspects) when I > wear my sysadmin. hat. > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu > Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a > little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. > -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-devel mailing list > Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel > >
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