Re: [Openinteract-dev] OpenInteract: global configuration overrides

[Perrin H. <pe...@el...>]

Chris Winters wrote:
> So instead, why don't we have
> a single place where we can modify or rewrite configuration information
> before it gets set in the server?

I like it.  Right now I'm doing some work with ATG Dynamo, and the only 
thing I like about it is the way you can override configuration.  It 
uses a configuration search path, like @INC, and when a value is 
requested from '/foo/bar/baz.properties' it will search the path for a 
file with that name and then grab the value from it.  Files found 
earlier in the path have precedence.  It's very useful for exactly the 
sort of thing you're talking about.

Your system might actually be better, since the Dynamo one tends to 
result in lots of files scattered around the config path with a single 
"foo=7" line in them.  Consolidating them into one sounds simpler.

- Perrin