Tomcat¶

Tomcat offers no out-of-the-box way to create a Properties resource. One solution is to download the propfactory jar from the shredzone.org Maven repository and place it in Tomcat's lib directory. It offers an SPI that creates a java.util.Properties object using the given ResourceParams.

A context.xml file for RepoWatch could now look like this:

<Context>
    <Resource name="jdbc/RepowatchDS" 
              auth="Container" 
              type="javax.sql.DataSource" 
              url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/repowatch" 
              driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver" 
              username="repowatch" 
              password="secret" />

    <Resource name="hibernate/RepowatchDS" 
              auth="Container" 
              type="java.util.Properties" 
              factory="org.shredzone.PropertiesFactory"/>

    <ResourceParams name="hibernate/RepowatchDS">
        <parameter>
            <name>hibernate.dialect</name>
            <value>org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
            <name>hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto</name>
            <value>update</value>
        </parameter>
    </ResourceParams>

</Context>

After deploying the RepoWatch WAR file (e.g. from the shredzone.org Maven repository), RepoWatch should be running.