Hi David,
Thanks that sounds like a good path to follow. I'll give it a try.
- Dave
---- Original message ----
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:41:14 -0400
From: David Aspinall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WO 5.3 and Tomcat property files?
To: Dave Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com Apple" <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com>
>I encountered problems with WebSphere using properties files. The
>first problem is that either the Framework properties files were NOT
>read, or they were not read in time (for me to initialize from
>them). The second is that when the properties are loaded, there is
>only ONE System.properties object. See:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=webobjects+servlet+properties
>
>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/JSP_and_Servlets/
>SpecialIssues/chapter_4_section_2.html
>
>Additionally you can set properties in the container and WO will load
>them from JNDI. Which is cool in a way and familiar for clients with
>their own administration processes and policies.
>
>Our solution is to have one property defined in the container to
>identify an additional properties file. That file we manually read
>(from filesystem/war/ear) using a standard java Properties object and
>then for each property we set the key and value into NSProperties.
>If we do this early enough (Application initialization) then we can
>control/override all the standard WebObjects properties (including
>custom jdbc/jndi connection info).
>
>Hope this helps,
>David
>
>On 19-May-06, at 2:39 AM, Dave Elsner wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What the best approach to use property files from development in
>> and for deployment within tomcat? Because it seems they are not
>> being read in at run time
>>
>> System.getProperty("foo") always returns null under tomcat, but
>> works perfectly in development in Xcode.
>> I tried printing out System.getProperties() and none of my
>> application properties have been loaded only the built in Java ones
>> are there.
>>
>> How does every one else handle this?
>>
>> 1) Manually add properties as <env-entry> in the web.xml file?
>>
>> 2) Avoid properties altogether ?
>>
>> 3) Something else?
>>
>> I had a quick look at LEConfigServletEnvEntryMergeTool from
>> lejstuff from Andrew Lindesay and it looks promising. As it appears
>> to convert property files to <env-entry> in the web.xml file, but
>> running it out of the box I got IO.exceptions.
>>
>> - Dave
>>
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