Hello, I have been reading up on accessing databases from within the struts framework, and I'm not totally sure of the best way to approach the issue of deployment.
We package up a WAR file for distribution to end users, and I would like to be able to tell them to drop the WAR file in webapps and be done with it. (ie., not have to uncompress it). However, from what I can tell, setting up "clean" database access includes doing something like making a data-source entry and placing it in the web.xml in the WEB-INF directory of the deployed application. Since the properties for the database (username, password, etc) will be different for each end user, I can't apriori set values for this. So, what does everyone out there that has been down this road before do to solve this problem? I guess, really, this goes beyond simple database access. We also have a few other settings for our application that need to be set. CURRENTLY, we aren't using struts (pure servlets) and we have properties files that contain this information. But, we are currently requiring the user to unpack the WAR file and I would love to get away from this. Thanks for your help! -- Kirby Vandivort Theoretical Biophysics Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3051 Beckman Institute http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois Phone: (217) 244-5711 405 N. Mathews Ave Fax : (217) 244-6078 Urbana, IL 61801, USA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
