I'm trying to migrate a web application from Tomcat to Weblogic.

Tomcats server.xml lets you configure system environmental variables with <Environment name="XXX" type= ...>

What is the equivalent in Weblogic. I've tried searching dev2dev and the rest of the web but have hit a blank.

Thanks

You have to set it up in the server starup script as a JVM variable:

-Dmyvariablename=myvariablevalue

This is in the JAVA_OPTIONS variable and you will find it in the startManagedWeblogic script.

If you want application level variables for the webapp, then you probably know that you have to use <context-param> in the web.xml

Do let us know if this addresses your question.

Hi

Thought this was going to work, should have thought of it myself. Unfortunately I still get the same error:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to look up handlerPackage in java:comp/env.; remaining name 'handlerPackage'

Which tends to imply a JNDI issue. Until the developer gets in I can't tell you how he is trying to access 'handlerPackage' I'd assumed he was using
System.getProperty which I guess would work with your suggestion.

Just have to wait until I see the code.

Thanks

Hello

This does look like a JNDI issue, the code is


    protected static final String LOOKUP = "java:comp/env";
    protected static final String HANDLER_PACKAGE = "handlerPackage";
    protected Context initCtx;
    protected Context envCtx;

    initCtx = new InitialContext();
    envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup(LOOKUP);
        
    setHandlerPackage((String) envCtx.lookup(HANDLER_PACKAGE));

So it looks like I need to configure weblogic with a JNDI entry for a string named 'handlerPackage'. Where do you do this?

Thanks for the post I've now figured this out.

All that was needed was a env-entry in the web.xml

Cheers