Having a property file is the most interesting aspect. If you were going to put a property key/value element directly in the configuration file, why not just use the value directly in the configuration file in the first place? Unless you used xml entities to define a file of property elements to include, I guess.
The idea of referencing a property file is a good one. -Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:27 PM > To: Log4J Users List > Subject: RE: Initialization Question > > > At 13:51 21.11.2002 -0800, you wrote: > > > > How do you envision this working? Can you please > provide an example? > > > > > > I was thinking about something similar to ant's syntax, > > > > > > <!-- Load properties from a file --> > > > <property file="log4j.properties"/> > > > > > > <!-- Explicitely define a property --> > > > <property name="smtp.host" value="smtp.mycompany.com"/> > > > > > > Not sure if this is feasible... the DTD would need to be updated > > > to support this new 'property' element. > > It is certainly feasible. It shouldn't be too hard to implement. > > >It would be interesting to have the DOMConfigurator support it's own > >Properties object, setting the property key/values from the > property tags in > >the config file. The code doing the substitution could > first look in the > >DOMConfigurator Properties object first, and if no value is > found there > >fallback to the system properties. > > > >Interesting. > > We can imitate Ant with its property task. Both > > <property name="foo.dist" value="dist"/> > and > <property file="foo.properties"/> > should be possible. > > >-Mark > > -- > Ceki > > TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be > conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from > others. -- Jon Postel, RFC 793 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
