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uPortal Properties

uPortal uses several properties files for customizing behavior and configuring features such as Logging, the database, and authentication/authorization. The following table provides a brief description of each properties file with a link to a page which provides detailed information.

	portal.properties	The portal.properties file contains a wide range of properties for configuring caching, timeouts, user management, and a variety of other features.
	Logger.properties	The Logger.properties file is used for configuring the log4j logging system.
	ldap.properties	The ldap.properties file is used for configuring attributes for an LDAP connection necessary for the use of the SimpleLdapSecuritycontext and CacheLdapSecurityContext security provider. .
	media.properties	The media.properties file is used for configuring user agent mappings.
	mime.properties	The mime.properties file is used for mapping browser (media) types to their mime types.
	rdbm.properties	The rdbm.properties file is used for configuring database connection values.
	security.properties	The security.properties defines the security provider or chain of providers that will establish the authentication of a portal user. Also specifies the default authorization implementation.
	serializer.properties	The serializer.properties file is used for setting serializer names for each user agent.
	worker.properties	The worker.properties is used for defining uPortal workers (for example, a download worker)
	browser.mappings	The browser.mappings files is used for defining user agent strings for each type of browser.
	PersonDirs.xml	The PersonDirs.xml file is used for standardizing a method for obtaining a persons attributues.
	EntityPropertyRegistry.xml	The EntityPropertyRegistry.xml is used for specifying various entity properties (for example, PersonDir properties)
	services.xml	The services.xml file is used for defining uPortal services such as the Logging server and database connection pool.
	dbloader.xml	The dbloader.xml is used for configuring the dbloader tool which is used for loading the database.
	tables.xml	The tables.xml file contains definitions for all of the database tables used by uPortal (used by dbloader)
	data.xml	The data.xml file contains definitions for all of the data stored in the uPortal database (used by dbloader)
	compositeGroupsServices.xml	Defines the sources of information from which uPortal should load its groups.
	LDAPGroupStoreConfig.xml	Specifies the connection info, groups, and queries for the LDAP groups service.