On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Anil Chawla wrote:
> Ivan, thanks for the prompt response. Our intention is to provide our users
> with a WAR/EAR file and perhaps a simple startup script that they can edit to
> set the correct environment variables for their environment. It is good to
> know that there is a work-around like this but it might be a little too
> complicated for our users.
>
If you are willing to distribute your app as a "predeployed" geronimo plugin
rather than an app that must be deployed on each server, you can include this
config.xml info in the plugin. The easy way is to use a maven project and the
car-maven-plugin to package your app as a plugin. The geronimo build has lots
and lots of examples of how to set up the config.xml bits and default values
for config-substitutions.properties such as the plugins/tomcat/tomcat
subproject.
>
> Is there any other option for configuring external folders in our classpath
> without putting a fixed path in geronimo-web.xml? For example, is there an
> easy way to append to the classpath of the server when running geronimo.sh?
> If so, we can just ask our users to set APP_HOME as an environment variable
> and provide a startup script that runs gernonimo.sh with the right parameters.
>
that won't work, sorry.
thanks
david jencks
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anil Chawla
>
>
> <graycol.gif>Ivan ---08/25/2010 11:46:15 AM---You could NOT use the
> substitution directly in geronimo-web.xml, but you might try a workaround solu
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> Re: Substitution variables in gbean attribute value
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>
> You could NOT use the substitution directly in geronimo-web.xml, but you
> might try a workaround solution below, it should work :-)
>
> a. After deploying your application into the server, then stop the server.
> b. Open the var/config/config.xml, and find the segment for your application.
> c. Let's take the SharedLib as an example, add a xml fragment like :
> <gbean name="SharedLib">
> <attribute name="libDirs">${APP_HOME}/lib</attribute>
> <attribute name="classesDirs">${APP_HOME}/conf</attribute>
>
> </gbean>
> d. add the APP_HOME and its real value in the
> var/config/config-substitutions.properties
> e. Start the server, now it should use the value configured in the
> config-substitutions.properties.
>
> 2010/8/25 Anil Chawla <acha...@us.ibm.com>
>
> Hi,
> Is there a way to use substitution variables when defining gbeans in
> geronimo-web.xml? For example, I would like to define a SharedLib for our
> application with an APP_HOME variable that points to the actual location of
> files on the user's filesystem:
>
> <gbean name="SharedLib"
> class="org.apache.geronimo.system.sharedlib.SharedLib">
> <attribute name="libDirs">${APP_HOME}/lib</attribute>
> <attribute name="classesDirs">${APP_HOME}/conf</attribute>
> <reference name="ServerInfo">
> <name>ServerInfo</name>
> </reference>
> </gbean>
>
> I've tried setting an APP_HOME environment variable as well as passing
> APP_HOME as a Java system property. I even tried
> org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.APP_HOME but that seems to be
> specific to config.xml.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anil Chawla
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ivan
>
