Re: Configuration free persistence?

2004-05-13 Thread Will Hartung
From: Shapira, Yoav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:27 AM Here's another take that's not seen often, but is intriguing: the java.util.prefs API. It uses the Registry on Windows, and the filesystem on unix, by default, but that can be changed. If you're running on Windows

Re: Configuration free persistence?

2004-05-13 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Will Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Shapira, Yoav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:27 AM Here's another take that's not seen often, but is intriguing: the java.util.prefs API. It uses the Registry on Windows, and the filesystem on unix, by default, but that

Re: Configuration free persistence?

2004-05-12 Thread Tim Funk
To get the server info: ServletContext.getServerInfo() Personally - I would state my webapp needs a directory[or database] to write/load its configuration. The directory or datasource would be setup using JNDI. Then its up to the system admin to use the Container specific functionality to

RE: Configuration free persistence?

2004-05-12 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, It's not blasphemy ;) It's a good question. Many people take shortcuts / cut corners to get around this ;) b) Require that a database be present and publish the datasource name that the web app is looking for, and assume that the user will configure their container properly (and, of

Configuration free persistence?

2004-05-11 Thread Will Hartung
This is blasphemy, I know...but... As far as I know, there is no portable way that a generic Webapp bundled in a WAR, and dropped into a random container can persist information from one run of the container to another. On the one hand, there is no requirement that a WAR be exploded on deploy,