[Melati-developers] Location of velocity.log

[James W. <ji...@wr...>]

Hi Tim et al,

I am trying to fix this without a hack:

javax.servlet.ServletException:
org.melati.template.TemplateEngineException:
org.melati.template.TemplateEngineException
java.lang.Exception: Unable to configure AvalonLogSystem :
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat5/velocity.log
(Permission denied)
	org.melati.servlet.TemplateServlet.init(TemplateServlet.java:90)

It seems that VelocityTemplateEngine.init() ignores the given melatiConfig
and uses loadConfiguration() to get a trivial set of property definitons
designed solely to load templates. Effectively:
resource.loader=class
class.resource.loader.class=WebMacroClasspathResourceLoader

I am not sure my understanding is correct, which is why I am writing.

Anyway, org/melati/org.melati.MelatiConfig.properties defines a set of
properties org.melati.*.

The number of times org*melati appears in the last sentence has always
looked to me like some kind of smell but I am not sure. If the aim is that
we can add lines like this:
org.apache.velocity.properties=/WEB-INF/conf/velocity.properties

then maybe some of the reduncy makes sense.

OK, my suggestion is to pass the melatiConfig to a new loadConfig(Properties
p) and add any default property definitons to those in the config file.

Maybe I will try it over the weekend. In the meantime I would be grateful
for any comments. TIA.

Jim