Hi,
Due to increasing demands, I made app-schema joining turned on by default.
This means joining will take effect even if app-schema.joining parameter is not specified in app-schema.properties.
If you want to override it, you can set it to false.
The default joining value will be ignored for non-database backends (e.g. when using properties file datastore), as they are not supported with joining.
Related JIRA issue: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-5693.
The documentation page has also been updated: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/app-schema/joining.html#configuration.
The changes were committed to trunk/master only, and not in any branches. This means it will take effect from the next 2.4 release, unless you’re using the nightly trunk build.
If you have any problems, please let me know.
Cheers
Rini