I did just notice that the core is dependent on
commons-collections/lang/logging.  Not as excited about that, but
probably still ok, i guess.

http://commons.apache.org/configuration/dependencies.html

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Nathan Bubna <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't looked at commons configuration in years.  I'm randomly
> perusing it now.  I like what i see.  It does seem a bit heavy, but i
> suppose it provides a lot more config options than we currently do.
> Considering Engine's position as a library/component project, that's a
> plus.  Let people configure as they need.  I also like their support
> for configuration events; interesting possibilities there.
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Antonio Petrelli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all
>> I noticed that, in Velocity Engine, the dependency on Commons
>> Collections is due to the use of ExtendedProperties and LRUMap.
>>
>> I know what to do with LRUMap (shade the needed classes of Commons
>> Collections), however I think ExtendedProperties could be replaced
>> with Commons Configuration. So, if we want, we can move from simple
>> properties files to other types (e.g. XML, servlet parameters) with no
>> extra effort. Moreover Commons Configuration allows loading multiple
>> sources: this is important to me since I would like to implement,
>> later, the ability to load configuration from multiple files (for
>> example to load user directives from various JARs automatically,
>> without configuration).
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Antonio
>>
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