Hi All, (Sorry to bother the list with this message, but I think it could be interesting for you all.) I put on sourceforge a new project (XRes4J; sourceforge.net/projects/xres4j) which relies heavily on the wonderful Dom4J. XRes4J stands for "XML Resources and properties for Java" and should be a replacement for traditionnal properties file read through Properties class: this mean is tedious because you could think you have access to a hierarchy (user.xxx.yyy) which is unfortunatly not the case. Thanks to XML, you can now put all your init properties in a hierarchy (spread over many files) Thanks to dom4j it is really easy to implement such a library. Developer has to provide as many XML properties files he/she wants (with many DTD). For retrieving a paricular resource or set of resources, he/she has just to supply an XPath query and the API returns the corresponding resources (if ever). I would be very grateful if you could take a minute to give me your feed-back on this project. Thanks in advance ChAP ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev