| Summary: | Documentation on server configuration should include note about ant-style variable substitution | ||
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| Product: | Tomcat 5 | Reporter: | Rodney <business2008> |
| Component: | Webapps:Documentation | Assignee: | Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 5.5.27 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | All | ||
Thanks for the report. I have added some text to the docs for trunk 6.0.x and 5.5.x which will be included in 7.0.0 onwards, 6.0.21 onwards and 5.5.29 onwards. |
The 3.3 documentation mentioned that ant-style variable substitution was available in the server.xml configuration. The documentation for 5.5 (and 6.0) doesn't seem to mention that anywhere. It should be included. Something like: Configuration attribute values may use variable substitution (aka dynamic variable values or system property variable values). The syntax for doing so is ${varname} Valid variable names come from any system properties (JVM Option) that are available at the time. Values are only resolved once and not updated until the server is restarted.