> you know, I wonder if we can't create a defacto place in the Java1.4 > preferences world for storing proxy information across apps. There is > something for applets, but nothing for apps in general. > > Imagine a System node "org.apache.jakarta.proxy" that would be read by > everything that cares about proxies -they could even implement a > listener to respond to dynamic changes, so that were I to write a > laptop utility that switched the proxy on and off, apps could get the > change. >
If you needed that, couldn't the default system properties for proxies be used? - Brett
