Thanks you very much for your suggestions. I decided to use Commons configuration for my application.Because i don't wan't to import all the required beans where ever iam going to use the XML Properties.
Thanks SanDi On 12/2/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:21 -0500, Sravan Duggaraju wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using lot of XML configuration files for my new application,And i > was > > searching for the tools to read the structured properties. > > I found two tools commons -->digester and configuration. > > > > 1)Which one is the appropriate tool to read the XmlConfiguration files. > > 2)I did not find good examples(documentation) for Commons > > configuration.Where can i get the examples? > > Digester is capable of creating and populating *problem domain* objects > using the input xml. These objects can have real behaviour appropriate > to the problem domain. And it means that applications can basically be > written first, then "digester enabled" later without much (if any) > change to the objects built from the input data. > > XmlConfiguration, as others have noted, loads data as some pool of > information that the "real" objects can consult. The objects wishing to > configure themselves need to be modified to explicitly *look* for their > associated data. For many uses, of course, this is the simplest and most > obvious approach. > > There is some overlap, however. Some users of Digester simply use the > rules to populate objects with nothing but getters/setters on them which > essentially makes this the same as using XmlConfiguration. > > Note that I'm very familiar with Digester but don't know much about the > Configuration project or XmlConfiguration. > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
