Re: [Flock-devel] Feature Requests: Use a flock.properties config file instead of system properties

[Zsombor <zo...@us...>]

It's good to hear, that someone still use the program, however the
original authors have lost their enthusiasm long time ago.If I can
believe in the CVS change logs, more than 2 year passed since our last
release :-) Anyway, i've commited the necessary changes to the CVS, so
if you can do a full check out, and do a 'maven war' then you will have
a fresh flock-0.7. The generated war will contain a
WEB-INF/flock.properties file, in which you can customize the flock
storage directory, with the store.directory property.
 I hope phraktle will update the website, because I cant remember how to
do that :-)

BR,
	Zsombor



2005-03-29, k keltezéssel 12:25-kor ad...@in... ezt írta:
> I'm with a hosting company that offers Java hosting (on Tomcat). In our
> normal configuration, we run a shared Tomcat instance per server (shared
> JVM). This is perfectly acceptable to many customers nowadays, and lets us
> offer a more affordable Java hosting service.
> 
> A common problem with open-source Java products is the tendency to assume
> everybody's on a private JVM, and so to rely on system properties for
> application configuration. I think that goes against the purpose of "system"
> (not webapp) properties anyway, and it causes a lot of problems in a
> shared-JVM environment. This is a show-stopper with Flock, because the
> default location of Flock's home directory is /username/.flock. This is
> problematic because Tomcat runs under the same username for all users. It
> seems the only way to set this parameter is through the flock.home system
> property, which is also a problem, because this will again be shared by all
> users. So I'm essentially limited to one installation of flock per server.
> 
> I can see reasons why you might want several Flock installations (in
> different Webapps, for example), even on a dedicated JVM setup, so I think
> it's too limiting to set this only by system property. I think you really
> need to allow a flock.properties file that can be placed in WEB-INF/classes
> for example, so that flock.home can be specified separately for each webapp.
> 
> Please let me know if this is a possibility, as I have a user who is eager
> to run Flock in his account.
> 
> Gratefully,
> 
> Pete Cassetta
> interAdvantage Administrator
> ad...@in...
> 
> 
> 
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