Yes, the properties element will let you use either a resource or a URL as the location of the properties file.
A resource is loaded from the class loader and as such, needs to be on the class path. In a web application, you could put it in a jar in your WEB-INF/lib directory, or in a directory in WEB-INF/classes, and the class loader will find it. Resource examples include "com/company/system/config/ibatis.propertes" or just simple "ibatis.properties" instead. A URL is loaded with the URLConnection class, so any URL that Java is aware of will work in iBATIS. For example, "jar:file:/somedir/config.jar!/ibatis-dev.properties". If you really had a need, you could even use "http://somehost/config/somefile.properties";, and iBATIS would dutifully load the properties from that URL. You need to find the appropriate URL, and it will work. Larry On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:57:28 -0000, Adrian Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an EAR (PRDApp) containing several EJB's & a single WAR file. > > I have a prd.system.properties file that currently contains the data source > name iBatis use's to get a connection from a Weblogic connection pool. > > i.e > > datasourcename=PRDDataSource > > So my sql-map-config.xml file looks something like this - > > <sqlMapConfig> > > <properties resource = "prd.system.properties" /> > > . > . > <transactionManager type="EXTERNAL"> > <dataSource type="JNDI"> > <property name="DBFullJndiContext" > value="${datasourcename}"/> > </dataSource> > </transactionManager> > > This works fine but I want to use this file to contain other settings used > by other modules. So I've placed it in the App directory but changing the > line to - > > <properties resource = "./applications/PRDApp/system.properties" /> > > but this produces - > > javax.ejb.EJBException: Error in ejbCreate:: > java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError > . > Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not initialize > DaoConfig. Cause: com.ibatis.dao.client.DaoException: Error while > configuring DaoManager. Cause: > com.ibatis.sqlmap.client.SqlMapException: There was an error while building > the SqlMap instance. > --- The error occurred in > ./applications/PRDApp/prd.system.properties. > --- The error occurred while loading global properties. > --- Cause: com.ibatis.sqlmap.client.SqlMapException: Error loading > properties. Cause: java.io.IOException: Could not find resource > ./applications/PRDApp/prd.system.properties > . > > Is it possible to get iBatis to use this file? if so any ideas what the > resource line should be? > > Many thanks > > harry > >
