its not a bad practice to parameterise a configuration file. How else would you do it?
Your classes need environment-specific information so you extract that to property files and then pass the correct one to your main configuration system (XML, Java code, whatever) and it reads the properties. Its a solved problem. Rakesh On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:20 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]>wrote: > Ok, from my experience I don't see it used. When I suggest it I hear > it's "bad practice" to mix code and config. Anyway, this is all > anecdote. Maybe I'm hanging with the wrong people :) > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Fabrizio Giudici > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:13:43 +0100, phil swenson <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > >> I should clarify myself, I really meant "Almost no one in > >> the java world seems to use dynamic XML for *configuration*" > > > > > > Ah-ha! But I answered before reading this. So I'm almost no one in the > > world. :-) > > > > > > -- > > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
