On 12/7/05, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd also like to cover vfs and resources, especially > why resources is different from configuration.
I just had a quick look at the Configuration docs for the first time and whilst there appear similarities (both providing mechanisms to retrieve data from sources such as XML, properties files, JDBC etc) and you could view things such as messages (one purpose of Resources) as configuration data IMO there are significant differences in their aims. Configuration is a more generic facility for configuration data whilst Resources is specifically targetted at retrieving "localized" resources - i.e. what you get depends on your Locale and is an alternative to the java.util.ResourceBundle. It also provides a Message representation and message handling facilities including formatting (using java.text.MessageFormat) and parametric replacement in messages. Niall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
