Difference between portal-ext.properties, Hook-portal.properties and Ext-portal-ext.properties

Difference between portal-ext.properties, Hook-portal.properties and Ext-portal-ext.properties

n portal-ext.properties: It is created manually by the developer and it is duplicate of portal.properties of WEB-INF/lib folder. portal.properties is copied and renamed it to portal-ext.properties and placed in WEB-INF/classes folder of tomcat directory. Only reason is, it is not recommended to do the modifications directly on portal.properties. Here, until and unless we maintan the structure, it will not work. If we need to override the property, every time we need to extract the portal-impl.jar and copy from portal.properties, also need to start the server for each and every modification. It leads to performance issues and processors time increases.

n properties in Hook: When we are implementing hook through Eclipse it will create portal.properties file automatically. Which allow you to use 50 to 60 properties and those properties will override the existing WEB-INF/lib/portal-impl.jar -> portal.properties file at run time.

n properties in Ext: Ext is another powerful plug-in which comes with portal-ext.properties by default. If we write any properties in that , it will be override the existing portal-ext.properties file(WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.properties). Unlike other plugIn, we need to restart the server for every modification. That intern leads to poor performance.