2011/5/11 Yongqin Xu <yong...@hotmail.com>: > > I would love to see that happen. thanks. > >> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:01:48 -0400 >> From: ch...@christopherschultz.net >> To: users@tomcat.apache.org >> Subject: Re: tomcat 7: common.loader property in catalina.properties does >> not take ANT style variable >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Konstantin, >> >> On 5/10/2011 4:50 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >> > 2011/5/11 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>: >> >> On 5/10/2011 3:05 AM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >> >>> IIRC, catalina.properties file does not support substitution for >> >>> anything, besides those two specific properties, "catalina.home" and >> >>> "catalina.base". >> >> >> >> The documentation suggests otherwise: >> >> >> >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/index.html >> >> >> >> " >> >> Tomcat configuration files are formatted as schemaless XML; elements (...) >> > >> > The said file is not an XML one. The above quote is not applicable. >> >> Upon second reading of that passage, you're right: though >> catalina.properties is mentioned, it's (somewhat) clear than it can be >> used to /define/ properties, but does not enjoy the >> system-property-replacements used in those other files. >> >> It makes sense, given that otherwise there would be a terrible circular >> logic problem when reading catalina.properties. I suppose, eventually, >> you'd either evaluate all system properties or detect a loop and could >> bail-out. >> >> If this seems like something the community would like, I wouldn't mind >> writing a patch to allow this type of thing. >> >> - -chris
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50677#c5 Implemented and will be in 7.0.17. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
