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using 3.5.4,

I've set the system variable com.atomikos.icatch.file=foo.properties

and I get this in the output:
Using init file: foo.properties
Failed to open transactions properties file - using default values

None of my properties are being used.

Also, I am having trouble using the Spring "Advanced Case (As of 3.3)" mentioned here: http://www.atomikos.com/Documentation/SpringIntegration

The problem is that the transactions.properties is still being searched for, even if I define com.atomikos.icatch.no_file=true.  How do the UserTransaction and UserTransactionManager use the UserTransactionServiceImp? It seems like a singleton is not being used, and there is a new transaction service created when the TxManager is created.

Hi,

-Please make sure that foo.properties is in your classpath, not just that it exists

-Please make sure that the no_file system property is set to something not-null (an empty value won't work?)

That should take care of both your problems.

HTH

Thanks Guy,

I think I see the problem, the code to read the file is

UserTransactionServiceImp.java:
java.io.File file = new java.io.File ( filename );

which looks for the file relative to the where the application was started.

But this will not work with files on the classpath unless you do something like this:
java.io.File file = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filename);

Thanks for the info - I created a case to fix this in our next community release...

Cheers

Hi,

After some research: supporting classpath lookups was not the intention of the system property.

Isn't it OK to specify a path that refers to the working dir of the VM?

HTH