Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-29 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On 9/29/05, matador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leon Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: now how exactly writing a thread which polls the db is less messy, than writing a thread that polls a file? regards leon no need for threads with db. change the val in

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-29 Thread matador
Leon Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: First: you can load your property files on each request as well. really, using what? im curious -- struts and regular properties files out of the box dont support that behaviour, so you would have to 'roll your own' i think.

RE: Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-29 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of matador Subject: Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format? First: you can load your property files on each request as well. really, using what? Try the java.util.Properties.load() method. You can check

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-28 Thread Leon Rosenberg
database. using props files you have to bounce the app to get changes to take effect unless you write your own properties loader that runs as a thread, or checks file timestamps, etc. imo, its all too messy, db based config is far superior now how exactly writing a thread which polls the

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-28 Thread matador
Leon Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: now how exactly writing a thread which polls the db is less messy, than writing a thread that polls a file? regards leon no need for threads with db. change the val in the db then the next time the page loads, the new

[OT] RE: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread Allistair Crossley
Hi, Just enter your variables into a text file called abc.properties with name/value pairs, e.g var1=val1 var2=val2 Although these will not automatically appear in application scope. You will need to write a tiny Servlet that you configure in web.xml, pass the filename as a servlet

RE: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread Allistair Crossley
To make this easier in the presentation tier, you would probably want to make this method a static member of some class (if using scriplet), or a tag if attempting a non-scripted presentation tier (recommended). Allistair. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread NoKideen
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:36, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: My webapp needs some application string variables for configuration. For the moment, I hard-code them as class static properties and compiled. But I'd like to know if there's any method to define such variables in a text file,

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread Jilles van Gurp
NoKideen wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:36, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: My webapp needs some application string variables for configuration. For the moment, I hard-code them as class static properties and compiled. But I'd like to know if there's any method to define such variables in

RE: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: NoKideen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format? Try this API Class file Is there some reason you went to all this trouble rather than using java.util.Properties? - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL

RE: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread George Sexton
I use a properties file stored in the WEB-INF directory. Modifying the web.xml is too error prone. Using another XML file is a lot harder than a properties file. Just use the servlet context getResourceAsStream(), and pass that to the properties.load() method. George Sexton MH Software, Inc.

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread NoKideen
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 16:48, Jilles van Gurp wrote: NoKideen wrote: this is example to to read - import lib.ConfLineSeparator; ... ... ConfLineSeparator c = new ConfLineSeparator(/whereis/thefile/file.conf);

RE: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: NoKideen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format? is there any example, I'd still confuse how to read dot properties file I think may API was to odds :-D, yeah that was trouble but there is one thing I like

Re: Flexible way of defining application variables in text format?

2005-09-27 Thread matador
Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:4339048E.30608 @yahoo.com: My webapp needs some application string variables for configuration. For the moment, I hard-code them as class static properties and compiled. But I'd like to know if there's any method to define such