Escenic Community Expansion specific setting files

As of VCE 3.0, the ${user.home}/.ndc-gce/environment.properties configuration file is no longer required or supported. VCE is now configured using a properties file named CommunityEngine.properties which is used in spring configuration. This file should be put in one of the following locations:

  • /etc/escenic/engine/instance/${com.escenic.instance}/com/escenic/community/

  • /etc/escenic/engine/host/${escenic.server}/com/escenic/community/

  • /etc/escenic/engine/common/com/escenic/community/

  • ${com.escenic.config}/com/escenic/community/

Example configurations are available under the $VCE_HOME/misc/siteconfig/ directory.

The properties file CommunityEngine.properties is structured as follows: 

# Hibernate & database configuration

# This property tells hibernate whether to show the SQL executed by hibernate
hibernate.show_sql=false

# This property tells hibernate which syntax to use when it comes to database
# specific SQL queries
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect

# This property tells Hibernate where to find the JNDI data source
# Please note that different application servers are configured differently.
# Also the name of the DataSource can be different. For example, Tomcat adds
# a prefix 'java:comp/env" to a configured DataSource. So, if the data source
# is configured by the name 'jdbc/ecome', then the JNDI resource location will
# be as follows:
hibernate.connection.datasource=java:comp/env/jdbc/ecome

# messaging configuration
mail.host=your mailhost
mail.default.from=mailfrom@you.com
# format is <publication-id>:<user-name>
mail.adminusers=12:test,1:glace_admin

The Statistics plug-in can be configured to use a datasource different than the one used by VCE. To configure Statistics plug-in to use a separate data source, StatisticsPlugin.properties file has to be configured. This file should be put in one of the following locations:

  • /etc/escenic/engine/instance/${com.escenic.instance}/com/escenic/community/statistics/

  • /etc/escenic/engine/host/${escenic.server}/com/escenic/community/statistics/

  • /etc/escenic/engine/common/com/escenic/community/statistics

  • ${com.escenic.config}/com/escenic/community/statistics/

The properties file StatisticsPlugin.properties is structured as follows: 

# Hibernate database configuration for Statistics plug-in
# This property tells hibernate whether to show the SQL executed by hibernate
hibernate.show_sql=false

# This property tells hibernate which syntax to use when it comes to database
# specific SQL queries
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect

# This property tells hibernate where to find the JNDI data source
# Please note that different application servers are configured differently.
# Also the name of the DataSource can be different. For example, Tomcat adds
# a prefix 'java:comp/env" to a configured DataSource. So, if the data source
# is configured by the name 'jdbc/ecome', then the JNDI resource location will
# be as follows:
hibernate.connection.datasource=java:comp/env/jdbc/ecome/statistics

Please note that as of VCE release 2.6-13, the database configuration no longer supports any configuration other than JNDI configured DataSource.

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