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Last modified by Ray Kiddy on 2009/07/29 13:11
From version 22.1
edited by David Avendasora
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edited by Ray Kiddy
on 2009/07/29 13:11
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1 -Best Practices
1 +Best Practices-Properties Files
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5 5  You can have any number of **Properties.username** files in your project's Resources directory in-addition-to the default **Properties** file. These Properties.username files will automatically load based on which user is launching the application. This allows you to have custom logging, email, database, etc configuration settings for each developer.
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7 -This capability can also be (ab)used in combinination with the Launch parameter **-Duser.name** to specify Production vs Staging/Development properties. For example: a launch parameter of **-Duser.name=deployment** will cause **Properties.deployment** to be read when the application in launched.
7 +This capability can also be (ab)used in combinination with the Launch parameter **Duser.name** to specify Production vs Staging/Development properties. For example: a launch parameter of **Duser.name=deployment** will cause **Properties.deployment** to be read when the application in launched.
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9 9  This can be very useful for automatically changing database connection configurations based on whether or not an application is being run in Production or Development.
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15 15  === Database Connection Properties ===
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17 -While the easiest place to set connection properties is in the EOModel, a better place to put them is in the Properties system, that way you can leverage the flexibility of launch-time loading of Properties.
17 +While the easiest place to set connection properties is in the EOModel, a better place to put them is in the Properties system, that way you can leverage the flexibility of launch-time loading of Properties so that you set connection info for each user, for development or for deployment.
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19 19  ==== Model-Specific Connection Properties ====
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21 -MyEOModel.URL =
22 -MyEOModel.DBUser =
23 -MyEOModel.DBPassword =
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23 +MyEOModel.URL =
24 +MyEOModel.DBUser =
25 +MyEOModel.DBPassword =
24 24  MyEOModel.DBDriver =
25 25  MyEOModel.DBPlugin =
26 26  MyEOModel.DBJDBCInfo =
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28 28  ==== Global Connection Properties ====
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30 30  These settings will allow you to set the connection properties for all the EOModels in your project.