cocoon.properties question

[Anthony Kalm <ak...@uen.org>]

Well, I've read several different opinions on where to put the
cocoon.properties file and when I move it around to the various
"suggested" places I get different Java exceptions thrown each time.  So
my question is:

In Chp 9 of Brett McLaughlin's book Java and XML he suggests putting the
cocoon.properties in the /build/tomcat/conf directory and adding the
following code to the web.xml file also contained in the
/build/tomcat/conf directory :


<servlet>
      <servlet-name>
         org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon
      </servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>
         org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon
      </servlet-class>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>
   properties
 </param-name>
        <param-value>
     /fs_path/build/tomcat/conf/cocoon.properties
        </param-value>
      </init-param>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>
        org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon
      </servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>
        *.xml
      </url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

One suggestion is to put the URI path instead of the file system path in
the web.xml file.  Is this correct?  If so what does a properly
formatted URI path look like (sorry, kind of new to this)?

Thanks for any suggestions.