<quote> > I understand your problem. I don't think confiruation has to be stored in xml, there shoud be a > java interface to add configuration.
Personally I think that XML is not a bad way to drive configuration. AFAIK, nowhere in MMBase this XML is used in memory then, it is always translated to some easier to use memory structure (usually a class with some members and maps). I think we may agree that configuration is always persistified on some way, and that on the most basic level you should be able to recover it as an InputStream. That's the only thing I would like to generalize for now. </quote> I was more hoping te get something like http://mmapps.sourceforge.net/mmbaseconfig/ or to generate the java classes using castor http://www.castor.org/ or reading the xml's using digester http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/ I think it's a bat idea to "merge" configuration on the serialisation layer. having an api also makes it possible to create multiple readers/writers for the configuration,
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