Re: velocity.properties

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> > are you deploying to a servlet container?  if so, then the
> > FileResourceLoader is not your friend.  you should be using the
> > WebappLoader (aka WebappResourceLoader) that is part of the
> > VelocityTools project.  It uses servlet context relative paths.
> >
>
>  Ahh cool, Ill check that out.  I know you're the author so its hard for you
> to present an unbiased view  but are there any penalty performances moving
> to this loader ?

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> > i don't think it would be all that hard to add support for including>
> > environmental variables in the properties.  you would pretty much just
> > watch for properties either coming in or going out of RuntimeInstance
> > for environment variables and do the replacement there.  It would
> > probably be easiest to do this in RuntimeInstance#getProperty.
> >
>
>  Ok thanks.
>
>  Thanks Nathan,
>  Charlei
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>  Nathan Bubna wrote:
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> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:50 AM, csanders <csanders@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Is there anyway we can set relative paths in this file ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > in which file? in velocity.properties?
> >
> >
> >
> > >  This is the only configuration file out of dozens that doesn't support
> this and its making deployment a serious pain.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > are you deploying to a servlet container?  if so, then the
> > FileResourceLoader is not your friend.  you should be using the
> > WebappLoader (aka WebappResourceLoader) that is part of the
> > VelocityTools project.  It uses servlet context relative paths.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Or can I use environmental variables in this file ?  That would work
> also.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > sounds like a useful thing to me!
> >
> >
> >
> > > If not - how much development would it take to get this to work ?  It
> might be worth it for us to contribute this to Velocity.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > i don't think it would be all that hard to add support for including
> > environmental variables in the properties.  you would pretty much just
> > watch for properties either coming in or going out of RuntimeInstance
> > for environment variables and do the replacement there.  It would
> > probably be easiest to do this in RuntimeInstance#getProperty.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Charlie
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