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This page describes the enhanced/reloadable configuration feature, based on Apache Commons Configuration, which has been submitted for possible inclusion in DSpace 6.
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Overview
In DSpace 5 or below, DSpace used it's own custom Property-based configuration scheme, along with a custom build.properties which could tweak the build/compilation process in order to "override" some pre-selected configurations in the dspace.cfg file. While this configuration scheme "worked" at a basic level, it required a lot of custom variable interpolation (i.e. filtering) to occur in both the Maven build process (mvn package) and the Ant install process (ant fresh_install or ant update). The end result was that configuration files in your DSpace installation directory ([dspace.dir]) contained the correct settings from your build.properties file, but all variables (${setting}) were filled out. So, it was no longer possible to easily tweak certain key settings (like dspace.dir or solr.server) without having to either re-run the entire build process or make corrections to several files at once.
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