I don't care too much about exactly what the configuration looks like, but I want it to be unified, and I want it to be set when the cache starts. Checking system properties throughout the codebase whenever we feel like is a bit too magic for me.
In addition, it seems that in order to add a new value to DistributionConfig, I have to add it in several places. Config should be in one place. Descriptions, values, ranges should be defined in one place and Ideally it should be extendable, and it should have some checks to make it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. For this particular problem, it turns out that we should not make it configurable via a property, but should get this information from SecurityService. I think that a unified config solution is something we should look into for the future, though. -Galen
