That might be a good idea for making system maintenance a little more flexible. We do that here with Oracle database sources for uPortal portlets and also we do it with CAS configurations and it really helps to make installs and updates for the system administrators easier, they can just plunk in a precompiled war file for example and the specific configurations can be picked up on the individual server. A lot more automation possibilities this way. We have looked at some possibilities with using RedHat Satellite to prepackage uPortal and use yum to help manage it on each server.
Aaron On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Drew Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > One of the ideas we discussed at the Unconference was an emphatic suggestion > from the SSP folks that uPortal should allow for placing some configuration > settings outside the uPortal webapp or outside Tomcat altogether. This > idea, furthermore, has come up before; I know OHIO University brought it up > when we were working with them. > > I have a version of this enhancement working... > > - https://gist.github.com/4608582 > > I would be delighted to: > - Whip up a JIRA > - Commit to master and rel-4-0-patches > - Update the uPortal Manual to document the use of this feature > > There's one minor drawback I want to bring to light: the files are 100% > optional but, as written, it puts the following in the log on startup for > each one that's not used... > > WARN [main] o.s.c.s.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer 2013-01-23 > 08:41:54,293 - Could not load properties from URL > [file:/${PORTAL_HOME}/overrides.properties]: > \${PORTAL_HOME}\overrides.properties (The system cannot find the path > specified) > > > drew wills > > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Aaron Grant Project Coordinator and Systems Integrator Oakland University - UTS -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
