[Opensource] Custom initial properties?

[Michael Rimov]

At 01:08 AM 5/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>What is the best way to handle custom initialization parameters?
>
>Setup.java and ConfigManager.java offer a static means to access various 
>parameters that an application might want to set. However, Setup has the 
>schema name which would be easy to mistake, in my opinion, and neither 
>approach seems to offer easy access to ServletContext parameters. Expresso 
>itself uses such values in web.xml:
>
>     <context-param>
>         <param-name>configDir</param-name>
>         <param-value>WEB-INF/config</param-value>
>     </context-param>
>
>It would be easy to add code in that configManager.config() routine such 
>that the entire list of context parameters found in web.xml would be added 
>as custom properties.
>
>What do you think? How do you handle this?

Larry,

The new config system I've been working on will take care of this.  I urge 
you to hold of and then give me a holler if it doesn't do what you 
want.  The new config system will allow each component to have various 
configuration values based upon various configuration data types.... all 
graphically manageable.

Hope this helps!
                                                 -Mike