Rainer Frey wrote: > On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:10:07 Mark Thomas wrote: >> Rainer Frey wrote: > [...] > Mark, thanks for your patient help with my questions. I really appreciate > this. > >>> Also, properties from catalina.properties and from Java System Properties >>> are expanded, but it seems that catalina.properties takes precedence. I >>> find this surprising, because system properties are in my perception more >>> dynamic and runtime/individual start specific than values in a config >>> file. Is this intentional behavior? If not, should I report a bug? >> It isn't documented so there can't be a bug :) > > Touch. That is indeed right ;-) > > But seriously, how is it intended to work? I saw that in > CatalinaProperties.loadProperties(), all properties from catalina.properties > are added to the system properties, overwriting any previous values. This > could be easily fixed. I'd write a patch myself if desired.
Changing this at this stage is probably a bad idea. It is bound to break something for someone. I'd go with a documentation patch to add the current behaviour to the docs. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
