Modifying Custom Module Resource Settings

If you create a custom module (see the ATG Programming Guide), you can use the module’s MANIFEST.MF file to specify paths to the module’s resources, as follows:

  • ATG-Class-Path: Specify a space-delimited set of paths to module resources that contain classes required by the module. For example:

    ATG-Class-Path: lib/resources lib/classes.jar

    ATG adds the ATG-Class-Path value to the CLASSPATH as each module is processed.

  • ATG-Config-Path: Specify a space-delimited set of paths to module resources that provide Nucleus configuration files needed by the module’s server application components. For example:

    ATG-Config-Path: config/config.jar config/oca-ldap.jar

    ATG adds the ATG-Config-Path value to the configuration path.

    Note: The path names in a module’s ATG-Class-Path and ATG-Config-Path settings are relative to the module’s root, not to the <ATG9dir> install directory.

In the MANIFEST.MF file, the ATG-Required attribute specifies which modules the custom module requires to start up. ATG-Required ensures that a given module’s manifest is processed after it processes all the modules that the module depends on. For example, if you want to place the config directory for your custom module after the DPS config directories in the configuration path, configure the attributes as follows:

ATG-Config-Path: config/
ATG-Required: DPS
 
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