Does anybody have any thought about putting configuration values such as these
in a directory server and have the servlet access them via JNDI? This
approach has many more advantages than putting configuration values in plain
text files.
Julian I. Kamil
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"Carver,F,NAIDP,CARVERFK M" wrote:
> On Saturday, March 27, 1999 1:52 AM, Damian Fauth
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > John Brecht wrote:
> > >
> > > I would like to be able to pass a list of parameters of arbitrary size
> to a
> > > servlet. The syntax for passing parameters via a properties file is:
> > >
> > > Syntax: servlet.[classname].initArgs=[name]=[value],[name]=[value],...
> >
> > What I have done in this situation (and I stole the idea from the GSP
> > guys) is to supply my servlet with a "propfile" parameter as you
> > describe:
> >
> > servlet.[classname].initArgs=propfile=/path/to/propfile.dat
>
> Just as a small tweak to this. What I tend to do is
> to allow both forms of args. I args-parsing codeh
> takes a string _either_ of the form
>
> name1=arg1,name2=arg2,name3=arg3...
>
> or
>
> @name
>
> If it encounters the first form it creates a Properties
> object and "put"s the names and values.
>
> If it encounters the second form, it loads the Properties
> from the specified file or URL.
>
> For me this helps because simple stuff which doesn't need
> much configuring (or where the configs hardly ever change)
> can be done in line, but more complex or frequently
> changing cases can have a properties file.
>
> Just a suggestion,
>
> --
> Frank Carver
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