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1 === Properties Files ===
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3 ==== User-Specific Properties Files ====
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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19 ==== Model-Specific Connection Properties ====
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21 MyEOModel.URL =
22 MyEOModel.DBUser =
23 MyEOModel.DBPassword =
24 MyEOModel.DBDriver =
25 MyEOModel.DBPlugin =
26 MyEOModel.DBJDBCInfo =
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28 ==== Global Connection Properties ====
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30 These settings will allow you to set the connection properties for all the EOModels in your project.
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32 {{noformat}}
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34 dbConnectURLGLOBAL =
35 dbConnectUserGLOBAL =
36 dbConnectPasswordGLOBAL =
37 dbConnectDriverGLOBAL =
38 dbEOPrototypesEntityGLOBAL =
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40 {{/noformat}}