Changing Component Properties Manually

A few configuration properties are not accessible through the ATG Control Center or Configuration Manager, and must be edited manually. However, even if a property can be modified through other means, you always have the option of making configuration changes manually.

To manually edit a properties file, do the following:

  1. Create a new properties file in <ATG2007.3dir>/home/localconfig with the same name and path structure as the original file. For example, the defaultFrom property in the /atg/dynamo/service/SMTPEmail component specifies the e-mail address from which messages will be sent via SMTP. To modify defaultFrom, create a new file called SMTPEmail.properties in the path <ATG2007.3dir>/home/localconfig/atg/dynamo/service.

    Note: Step 1 is not necessary for the Configuration.properties file because a file of this name is created in the <ATG2007.3dir>/home/localconfig/atg/dynamo directory during the installation process.

  2. Add the desired property to the new file. For example, to change the setting for defaultFrom, such as to test@example.com, add the following line to the SMTPEmail.properties file in <ATG2007.3dir>/home/localconfig/atg/dynamo/service:

    defaultFrom=test@example.com

For example, to change the port number of Dynamo’s RMI server to 8862 manually, open your <ATG2007.3dir>/home/localconfig/atg/dynamo/Configuration.properties file and add (or modify) the following line:

rmiPort=8862

Then save the Configuration.properties file and restart the Nucleus-based application. Because you made the change in the localconfig directory, the new port number will override the original value (still stored in the config/atg/dynamo/Configuration.properties file) and will be preserved when you install a new ATG platform distribution.

For additional information about defining and managing properties files, see the Nucleus: Organizing JavaBean Components chapter of the ATG Programming Guide.

 
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