Howdy, Seems like a reasonable increase in configuration flexibility without introducing backwards compatibility issues nor user confusion. +1.
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:31 AM >To: Tomcat Developers List >Subject: [5.0] Getting some defaults from system properties > >Hi, > >This is a little similar to the Ant-like properties for server.xml. > >The problem: the allowLinking and caseSensitivity flags of >FileDirContext, which can be set per context using the Resources >element, but it's kind of annoying to do it server wide. > >All defaults for flags (and others) are hardcoded, which is logical. >However, for some, it would be convinient to be able to set them in a >global way. > >For the naming conventions for the property names, I plan to use: >fully_qualified_class_name.field_name > >The algorithm is the following for a field: >- look up the appropriate system property >- if defined, use it >- otherwise, use the old defaults > >I don't think that many fields would be defaulted using this. > >Additionally, to allow easily setting system properties, all the >properties from catalina.properties will be set as system properties. >Since catalina.properties is not used in embedded mode (it is loaded >only by Bootstrap), there should be zero impact for this use case. > >Comments ? > >Remy > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
