That is a great idea! -Adrian
--- On Sun, 3/14/10, Joe Eckard <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Joe Eckard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Brainstorming about the Framework: General > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 9:57 AM > Something I've thought about from > time to time but never followed through all the way to make > sure there are no glaring problems: switch UtilProperties to > use something like Commons Configuration. > > This would essentially put all configuration variables into > one namespace, where they would be accessed via XPath > expressions. You could pull and merge from various sources > like properties files or XML files, get (optional) automatic > saving / reloading, and (optional) property overriding. > > The main reason for this would be to have a single file you > could use for deployment (dev.xml, staging.xml, > production.xml, etc) - drop this in your hot-deploy > component and have it override the values in framework / > applications.
