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1 -=== [[User-Specific Properties Files]] ===
1 +=== Properties Files ===
2 2  
3 +==== User-Specific Properties Files ====
4 +
3 3  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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5 5  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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7 7  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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11 +==== Development Only Properties File ====
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13 +You can set properties that will only be active if the project is run in Development mode by creating a **Properties.dev** file. It will be loaded for all users.
14 +
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 so that you set connection info for each user, for development or for deployment.
18 +
19 +==== Model-Specific Connection Properties ====
20 +
21 +{{code}}
22 +MyEOModel.URL =
23 +MyEOModel.DBUser =
24 +MyEOModel.DBPassword =
25 +MyEOModel.DBDriver =
26 +MyEOModel.DBPlugin =
27 +MyEOModel.DBJDBCInfo =
28 +{{/code}}
29 +
30 +==== Global Connection Properties ====
31 +
32 +These settings will allow you to set the connection properties for all the EOModels in your project.
33 +
34 +{{code}}
35 +dbConnectURLGLOBAL =
36 +dbConnectUserGLOBAL =
37 +dbConnectPasswordGLOBAL =
38 +dbConnectDriverGLOBAL =
39 +dbEOPrototypesEntityGLOBAL =
40 +{{/code}}