Of course, one can use tags like the following snippet in the file
appengine-web.xml under the appengine-web-app tag:
system-properties
property
name=java.util.logging.config.file
value=WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties
/
property
name=log4j.configuration
1. Well, I guess that's the best option. Normally from my past experience a
setting file would include the db connection properties and then I would
just add more settings to it.
I guess that as long as I don't need to save settings regarding what to do
if the datastore has a problem - it would
