Drew, +1, this is very useful. About the log entry, could we potentially circumvent the line by perhaps writing a custom property configure that ignores the warning?
-Misagh > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:bounce-26750363- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Drew Wills > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [uportal-dev] Enhancement to place (optionally) some config > outside uPortal build/deploy process > > 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 -- 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
