On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:28:19PM -0400, Aaron Mulder wrote: > Are we talking about Geronimo 1.0 or 1.1? It will be quite easy to do > this in 1.1, but might be a bit more manual in 1.0.
I'm using IBM's "distribution" of Geronimo, version 1.0.1.2 > Also, do I understand correctly that you have a single WAR with a > separate geronimo-web.xml for each customer? Yes, I have one war file and then deploy for each customer with a separate geronimo-web.xml file, containing information that indentifies that customer. > Thanks, > Aaron > > On 5/16/06, Chris Wilkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a webapp that I'm going to reuse for several customers and would > >like to have the configuration information (customer name, database > >schema info, etc) live outside of the webapp. > > > >Normally I would would put this sort of information into the web.xml's > >init-param so that I could get it via the ServletContext. However I > >would like to deploy the exact same war for different customers and > >don't want to open up the war, add that setting, and the re-create the > >war file. > > > >I've tried to find a way to access the configId that I've individually > >set for each customer but can't find a way to get at the one that > >relates to the webapp that's being deployed -- I query the kernel for a > >list of gbeans and I can see all of the other webapps on the geronimo > >server. I have no idea which one is "mine" as they all look the same. > > > >Looking through the archives I found this post: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.geronimo.user/1418/match=configid > >but I'm not sure how to implement it. > > > >It would be handy if I could set some init-params from within my > >geronimo-web.xml file as I could grab those out of the ServletContext as > >I would give them a defined name ("CUSTOMERID") and in my application I > >would do a > > webApplicationContext.getServletContext().getInitParameter("CUSTOMERID") > >from within one of my spring classes. > > > >Has anyone else encountered this? > > > >What I'm heading toward doing is having Apache answer requests for > >http://customerName.com and then passing those along via ajp13 to the > >geronimo server(s) at http://geronimoNNN/customerName . That webapp > >will have an object created by Spring that has a method that returns all > >the Properties associated with that particular customerName. Since this > >is needed at startup I can't rely on the HttpServletRequest to get the > >context-root as I need to configure everything before the first request > >comes in. > > > >I'm thinking a "locally scoped" gbean defined in the geronimo-web.xml > >could do this, but my reading of the docs says that gbeans defined in > >there can be used by all webapps -- and so I'll have to give each one a > >unique name meaning that I can't hardcode in my spring config which one > >to look for. > > > >Chris > >
