Is there already something like that?
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/excalibur/tags/Excalibur-Initial- Migration-From-Avalon/configuration/src/java/org/apache/excalibur/ configuration/merged/
that was one idea on that..
you would have a 'base' configuration that could be shipped with an application. it would be modified by the application, and a 'layers' that would sit atop the shipped configuration could be generated. when the app starts up again, the 'layer' and 'base' are merged.
depends on how your application works, but if you want to be able to ship configuration updates and maintain how the user has modified it, this works well.
-pete
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