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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CONFIGURATION-353:
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Commons Configuration is a generic API, not a framework. We cannot make 
restrictive assumptions on how the API must be used. In particular we cannot 
judge that system properties are not worth being initialized from something 
else than a properties file. What if someone wants to use a INI or a plist file?

I understand the intent of the change, but I don't think SystemConfiguration 
should have been changed. The configuration builder is the only "framework-ish" 
part of Commons Configuration, this is where such changes can take place. The 
rest of the API should remain as generic as possible.

> Allow Commons Configuration to set system properties
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>                 Key: CONFIGURATION-353
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-353
>             Project: Commons Configuration
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 1.6
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Ralph Goers
>             Fix For: 1.6
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> SystemConfiguration allows the system properties to be accessed as a 
> configuration and used in a combined configuration. However, no mechanism is 
> available to set system properties from an external file. Such a facility 
> would alleviate having to place a bunch of -D options on the command line.

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