Handling propeties files

[Steven Pannell <st...@zooplus.com>]

Hi,

I'm new to subversion and would like know if someone can give me pointers to
the best way to handle application property files for development and
deployment.

Say I have:

src/com/domain/myapp/config.properties

Now this property file is different for development and deployment. what's
the best way to handle this problem? OK, I can remove it and put it
somewhere else and get the ant file t o fix it (or is there a better way).
Also everytime a developer goes "update" the property file will appear back
in the tree, can I stop this somehow?

thx.
Steve.


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Re: Handling propeties files

[Brian Brophy <br...@email.com>]

We have a similar requirement that as the application migrates through 
environments (dev, test, qa, prod), the configuration usually changes in 
each env (different databases, backend services, etc).

What we do is stage a utility jar as follows:
dev
   |-- app.properties
test
   |-- app.properties
qa
   |-- app.properties
prod
   |-- app.properties

We then use a system property (for example -DdeployEnv) to tell the 
runtime code which env it is running in.  For example, if we pass the 
application -DdeployEnv=test it loads from test/app.properties and 
-DdeployEnv=prod would equate to prod/app.properties.

~ Brian

Steven Pannell wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm new to subversion and would like know if someone can give me pointers to
>the best way to handle application property files for development and
>deployment.
>
>Say I have:
>
>src/com/domain/myapp/config.properties
>
>Now this property file is different for development and deployment. what's
>the best way to handle this problem? OK, I can remove it and put it
>somewhere else and get the ant file t o fix it (or is there a better way).
>Also everytime a developer goes "update" the property file will appear back
>in the tree, can I stop this somehow?
>
>thx.
>Steve.
>
>
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