Hola, There's a few different questions in here. AFAIK:
- All servlet containers developed over the past ~5 years support at least read-only JNDI, although it's only strictly required for complete J2EE servers. - There are three advantages to using JNDI over straight-up web.xml approaches: -- One is the ability to get the configuration data via JNDI using command-line tools, JMX-driven consoles, and other stuff not specific to a servlet container. This allows for more managability and easier unit-testing outside the container. -- The second advantage is easier dynamic changing of these configuration files: typically to change web.xml you need to reload the webapp, while changing JNDI does not require such a reload. -- Third, using JNDI allows you to specify default values and override them without changing the WAR file that you distribute your app in. So yes, init-params would work, as would context-params, but you would lose some of the above advantages. How significant they are for Solr is up for debate... Finally:
Is there an appserver that allows setting java:comp/env from outside the webapp but doesn't allow setting context-params?
Yes, in fact it's fairly normal for full J2EE servers to do this. In general full J2EE servers (as opposed to servlet containers) allow the admin to dynamically change JNDI resources, but are stricter with stuff set by the developer like values in web.xml. Recently they've become a little less strict, but then again I haven't been using full J2EE recently... ;) Yoav On 5/21/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/21/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I just wanted to make sure that JNDI was really the right way to go... > : Using those Context xml files in Catalina/localhost would also work > : with init-params AFAIK. > > Aren't init-params and context-params required to be specified in > the web.xml? I meant context-param, not init-param. I brought it up because Tomcat also allows one to specify context-params outside the webapp. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html (search down for context-param). The upside to context-param is that it's a mandatory part of the servlet spec. Is there an advantage to the JNDI approach? Is there an appserver that allows setting java:comp/env from outside the webapp but doesn't allow setting context-params? -Yonik
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