No SystemProperties for WL 6.0

Question

Folks,
With WL 6.0, there doesn't seem to be a well defined way
to set System properties from the config.xml file, like
with weblogic.properties. Is this on purpose ???
Are the "powers that be" suggesting that we should not be
setting/getting system properties in J2EE apps ???
Or is it simply glossed over in the current release ???
--- jerome

Answer 1

Could you point me in the direction on how this is acheived? I'm kind of new
to weblogic and I have this problem that I can't write to a local
*.properties file in my WEB-INF folder eg:
JSP loads /WEB-INF/app.properties
if doesn't exist
query user for properties details
Write out settings to /WEB-INF/app.properties
Set System.property([name], [value])
Because the file is not initially created WL6.1 throws a
NullPointerException saying it can't locate
getRealPath("/WEB-INF/app.properties").
I've tried adding a default app.properties file, but as before it can't get
a real path.
I have no problems on JRun or Tomcat in reagrds to this situation.
Another thing is I have my <error-pages> stored in my WEB-INF folder as
such:
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/WEB-INF/error-pages/404.jsp</location>
<error-page>
but WL6.1 returns:
<24/10/2001 9:02:40> <Error> <HTTP>
<[WebAppServletContext(3135265,centauriweb,/centauriweb)] Location:
"/WEB-INF/error_pages/404.jsp" for error the error code "404" does not
exist. Serving the defaul error page.>
I've also tried it with an HTML version as well as the path without the
leading "/" to no avail.
Is access to the WEB-INF folder possible in WL6.1?
Cheers,
Anthony Ikeda
Web Application Developer,
Proxima Technology Pty. Ltd.
North Sydney
New South Wales,
Australia 2060
Office: (612) 9458 1700 (ext 798)
Mobile: [phone]
"Kumar Allamraju" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
You can write a wrapper class which loads & sets
the system properties and then call weblogic.Server ;-)
Kumar
Dimitri Rakitine wrote:
I think that more J2EEish way is to use env-entry's in
the deployment descriptors instead of System properties -
in theory you should be able to deploy the application (EAR/WAR/EJB)
without modifying anything container-related (like scripts which
start WebLogic, classpaths etc).
Jerome Banks <[email protected]> wrote:
Folks,
With WL 6.0, there doesn't seem to be a well defined way
to set System properties from the config.xml file, like
with weblogic.properties. Is this on purpose ???
Are the "powers that be" suggesting that we should not be
setting/getting system properties in J2EE apps ???
Or is it simply glossed over in the current release ???
--- jerome--
Dimitri