[jboss-user] [Installation, Configuration & Deployment] - Symlink Resouce bundles and symlinks

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:58:23PM -0500, YosarianTheGreat wrote:
> We're trying to upgrade to 4.0.5 but have hit a snag.  We use Class.findResource and ResourceBundle.getBundle to locate properties files which exist in WEB-INF/classes.  Because we have different environments (dev, stage, prod) we need multiple versions of these properties files.  In order to keep from having a mess in source control, we have three distinct files and symlink to the correct file in the given environment.  Previously with 4.0.1 this worked fine, but with 4.0.5 it can't locate the file.  Removing the symlink and making a copy or even making a hard link works, but symlinks don't.  Hard links is a workable solution, but it's not as desirable as symlinks b/c it looks like a distinct file, and that might be confusing.
> 
> Here's what we have:
> 
> WEB-INF/classes/Configuration.properties -> WEB/classes/Configuration.properties.prod
> WEB-INF/classes/Configuration.properties.dev
> WEB-INF/classes/Configuration.properties.stage
> WEB-INF/classes/Configuration.properties.prod

You could load the right one based on a java.property
set at start time with the -D option of run.sh,
e.g.
	run.sh -Druntime=stage ....

and then the app would load Configuration.properties.${stage}

Or copy the correct properties file to an external dir
specified with --classpath

Matt