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-/**
-* OLAT - Online Learning and Training<br>
-* http://www.olat.org
-* <p>
-* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); <br>
-* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.<br>
-* You may obtain a copy of the License at
-* <p>
-* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-* <p>
-* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,<br>
-* software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, <br>
-* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. <br>
-* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and <br>
-* limitations under the License.
-* <p>
-* Copyright (c) since 2004 at Multimedia- & E-Learning Services (MELS),<br>
-* University of Zurich, Switzerland.
-* <hr>
-* <a href="http://www.openolat.org">
-* OpenOLAT - Online Learning and Training</a><br>
-* This file has been modified by the OpenOLAT community. Changes are licensed
-* under the Apache 2.0 license as the original file.
-*/
-package org.olat.core.configuration;
-
-import java.io.File;
-
-import org.olat.core.logging.StartupException;
-import org.olat.core.util.FileUtils;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer;
-import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-
-/**
- * Description:<br>
- * this overwrites the default spring property placeholder configurator with our custom one
- * 
- * <P>
- * Initial Date:  01.02.2010 <br>
- * @author guido
- */
-public class OLATPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer extends PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer {
-	private String localProps = "olat.local.properties";
-	private final String INTRO = "************************************************************************************************\n" +
-													"OLAT comes with default config values in olat.propeties and you can overwrite this properties " +
-													"with a file called olat.local.properties which gets search on the classpath.\nThe classpath is searched in the following order: " +
-													"WEB-INF/classes $CATALINA_HOME/lib .\n" +
-													"\nTo have the local config outside of OLAT we recoment to use $CATALINA_HOME/lib folder for your configuration";
-	public OLATPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer() {
-		//check at construction time whether the olat.local,properties file exists
-		//in not try to create an empty one, if this fails throw an exception
-		Resource overwritePropertiesRes = new ClassPathResource(localProps);
-		if (!overwritePropertiesRes.exists()) {
-			String catalinaHome = System.getProperty("catalina.home");
-			if (catalinaHome == null) {
-				String msg = 	INTRO +
-										"There is no "+localProps+" file in the classpath and I cannot figure out where to save one." +
-										" Please save yourself an empty "+localProps+" file to your tomcat/lib/ directory" +
-										"************************************************************************************************\n";
-				throw new StartupException(msg);
-			}
-			File props = new File(catalinaHome+"/lib/"+localProps);
-			FileUtils.save(props, "", "utf-8");
-			throw new StartupException(INTRO+ "\n\nOLAT Created automatically an empty "+localProps+" file for you at \""+props.getAbsolutePath()+"\", just start OLAT again and your done!\n");
-		}
-	}
-
-}