Declaring "tangosol.pof.enabled=" and "tangosol.pof.config=" in xml config

Question

Dear all,
Is there a way to declare "tangosol.pof.enabled=true" and "tangosol.pof.config=my-pof-config.xml" in coherence xml config (e.g. tangosol-coherence-override.xml) ratherthan using the "-Dtangosol.pof.config=" and "-Dtangosol.pof.config=".
We are looking for this because deploying the same config file on both our application servers and our pure coherence nodes is the easiest way we have to be sure that the configurations are in sync.
We have lost several hours last week figuring that we forgot to declare these "-Dtangosol.pof..xxx" environment variables in our J2EE servers and we would like to prevent this to reoccur.
Cyrille

Answer 1

For versions earlier than 3.6, if you don't want to set POF to be the default with the tangosol.pof.enabled switch, you have to add the full serializer definition to your cache config:
<serializer>
<class-name>com.tangosol.io.pof.ConfigurablePofContext</class-name>
<!-- Optionally override the default value ("pof-config.xml", or the setting of -Dtangosol.pof.config) -->
<init-params>
<init-param>
<param-type>String</param-type>
<param-value>pof-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</init-params>
</serializer>
From Coherence 3.6, you can add a <serializer/> element to the scheme in
the cache config file:
<distributed-scheme>
<scheme-name>example-distributed</scheme-name>
<service-name>DistributedCache</service-name>
<serializer>pof</serializer>
You can also define the default serialisation method in the cache
config file:
<cache-config>
<defaults>
<serializer>pof</serializer>
</defaults>
Both of these refer to a set of serializers defined in the operational config file that you can override using an
operational overrides file. E.g.
<!-- tangosol-coherence-override.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<coherence>
<cluster-config>
<serializers>
<serializer id="pof">
<class-name>com.tangosol.io.pof.ConfigurablePofContext</class-name>
<init-params>
<init-param>
<param-type>String</param-type>
<param-value>my-pof-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</init-params>
</serializer>
</serializers>
</cluster-config>
</coherence>