On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  i agree with randy
>
> murphy's law applies..
> if <dev/qa/prod> properties was packaged with the war then you would'nt
> have to worry about finding it...
> its always in the war
>

Honestly, if that works for you, so be it.

I personally don't want to have to rebuild the WAR to reconfigure.  I don't
want operations people to have to dig around inside a WAR or a source
repository.  I want them to be able to take the WAR, drop it somewhere, edit
a text file and you're done.  I want to know that if I build a new version
of the WAR, I don't have to worry if they've changed configuration settings
since I last gave it to them.  I want to know that if there's a new
environment, the developers don't need to be involved to get it up and
running.

These are the kinds of advantages that I feel like i'm getting from
externalizing the configuration, but there are other ways to go about it.

  - Geoffrey
-- 
Geoffrey Wiseman

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