RE: Portal Instance Properties and Liferay Hook deployment

2011-01-14T09:33:23Z

Hi Chad,

AFAIK this is not possible. But it would be a nice feature. As currently portal-ext.properties already can be deployed by Ext Plugins I'd like to see instance specific portal.properties there as well.

Tarkan

Portal Instance Properties and Liferay Hook deployment

2011-01-13T22:54:57Z

I'm using Liferay 6.0.5, and I've been experimenting with the instance specific portal properties, as described in LPS-9.

I'm wondering if it is possible to hot deploy custom instance specific portal properties using the liferay-hook mechansism.

I've created a hook project, specifying:

<hook>
<portal-properties>portal-company2.properties</portal-properties>
</hook>

and I've got a copy of portal-company2.properties in my docroot/WEB-INF/src. When I deploy the hook, I see:

22:45:53,411 INFO [HookHotDeployListener:394] Registering hook for test-property-hook
Loading file:/D:/Development/liferay-portal-6.0.5/tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/test-property-hook/WEB-INF/classes/portal-company2.properties
22:45:53,458 INFO [HookHotDeployListener:649] Hook for test-property-hook is available for use

But when I try to retrieve a custom property using PropsUtil.get() it is returning null.

If I manually place the portal-company2.properties into ROOT/WEB-INF/classes it works fine.

Can anyone recommend what else I may try to get this hot deployment to work. When running multiple instances, I want to avoid a system restart as that impacts all instances. Is there a better way of getting custom instance properties loaded without a restart?