Property Files
Windchill uses standard Java property files to determine runtime configuration properties.
The codebase directory contains:
• wt.properties
Contains properties used for general Java system configuration and Windchill system configuration.
• service.properties
Contains properties used by the Windchill service delegate mechanism.
• user.properties
Contains user overrides used by resource bundle and sql script generation tools.
• moduleRegistry.properties
Contains list of registered modules.
• moduleDir.properties
Contains home directory for each registered module.
The db directory contains:
• db.properties
Contains properties used by the Windchill database connection layer to access the database.
The System Generation jars (SystemGeneration.jar, WindchillUtil.jar & CommonCore.jar) contain:
• tools.properties
Contains properties used by resource bundle and sql script generation tools.
• debug.properties
Contains properties used by Windchill code to control debug info capturing.
• service.properties
Contains properties used by the Windchill service delegate mechanism, for the System Generation tools.
• typedservices.properties
Contains properties used by the Windchill service delegate mechanism, for the System Generation tools. You must use typedservices.properties when the selector object type could be a subtype.
• wt.properties
This is an abbreviated form of the file that is in codebase.
(Care must be taken when using a manually created classpath that includes both codebase and System Generation jars, since properties files will be loaded based on the order of the classpath components.)
The following sections discuss only a subset that you as a developer are most likely to be interested in. A complete set of properties and descriptions for the wt.properties, tools.properties, and db.properties files can be found in the properties.html file in the codebase directory.
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