Environment profiles

para.env is an important configuration property that turns features on and off. There are two main values for it - development, production, but you can define more.

By default, Para will use H2 as a database and pure Lucene as a search engine. This is the simplest way to get started with Para as you don’t need to configure anything.

When you are in development mode Para will store data locally in the ./data/ folder. The search index is in directory ./data/para-{appid} and the main database file is in /data/para.mv.db

Finally when you are ready to deploy your app to a real server set para.env to production. This will enable object caching and will try to connect to the real AWS DynamoDB service. Also you have to set up a new node for Elasticsearch or run it locally.

para.env	DAO	Cache	Search
development	H2DAO	CaffeineCache	LuceneSearch
production	any	any	any