Hum, maybe I should open up the question a little bit ... :

in the context of deploying a clojure webapp in enterprise, where
generally dev and op teams are different, what is the technique you
use to have different configuration files for different target
environments ?

2011/5/20 Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I like to have the configuration parameters of my webapps not being
> bundled in resource files in my webapp(*).
> So that my webapp can be packaged once and for all for a given
> version, and not be repackaged for each deployment target.
>
> The technique I'm generally using when doing this, which is the most
> agnostic (IMHO) wrt "where" the webapp will run, is to pass via a JNDI
> parameter the absolute path to the configuration file having the
> values relevant to the execution environment.
>
> By doing so, the team responsible for managing the webapp has the
> ability to specify where the configuration file should live.
>
> For example, if my webapp must call some remote xml-rpc service, then
> the URL of the service will change from environment to environment
> (not the same for testing, pre-production, production, for example).
>
> So now my question : is there already somewhere in the ring ecosystem,
> or elsewhere, a package which already provides this as well as perhaps
> other facilities to still enable to painlessly use it in conjunction
> with unit and/or integration testing, etc. ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> (*) : recent discussions / readings have, tho, somehow started to make
> me doubt about the "dogma" around my approach. For example, currently,
> Amazon Elastik Beanstalk seems to promote uploading wars created
> specifically for a platform (there's not the ability to bootstrap the
> webapp but from its own embedded resources, AFAIK).
>
> --
> Laurent
>

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