Separate configuration from software installation
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Key: ESBJAVA-545
URL: https://wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA-545
Project: WSO2 ESB
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.7
Reporter: Eric Hubert
Assignee: Asankha Perera
Attachments: conf.patch, core.patch, startup.patch
It should be possible to separate the configuration from rest of the software
installation. This allows to use different configurations to for multiple
instances of one central software installation of WSO2 ESB (the same way it can
be down with Bea Weblogic or JBoss).
Current Situation:
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The WSO2 ESB configuration resides in the following two directories and is
split over various files.
<ESB_INSTALLATION>/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf
<ESB_INSTALLATION>/tomcat/conf
This design is driven by the deployment of Synapse as a (exploded) web archive.
Some configuration files are grabbed from the classpath, while others are read
as file resources depending on system properties and/or init parameters
specified in the web.xml.
Requirement/Aim:
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Ideally I would like to pass an option specifying the configuration location
(any directory outside the webapp) to a server start script. Of course the
synapse configuration plays a special role and any user should be able to put
this file to a location outside this configuration folder. Right now this is
already possible via using the System-Property "synapse.xml".
Possible Solution:
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Use system property to be able to specify configuration directory containing
what's currently in the config directories. I no property is specified the
current behavior should be preserved. Also the classpath needs to be changed to
contain this folder.
The attached patches demonstrate the changes which would be required to
introduce such a variable to the WSO2 ESB code. It has been created against the
1.7-Tag. The Synapse source code does not need to get touched.
Limitations:
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- identity.jks, trust.jks and ui-extensions-config.xml need to stay in
webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf due to some other code dependencies in Synapse
(HttpCoreNIOSSListener/'Sender)
- context.xml, tomcat-users.xml, and web.xml need to stay in tomcat/conf (seems
to be a requirement of Tomcat-Engine)
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