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giangiammy@gmail.com - 06 Dec 2005 09:16 GMT

hi all,

I need to read some simple configuration parameters in my program.
Is there some standard format/library/tecnique in java?
it would be a 10 line parsing function what I need, but if I can
use something already present it's better

thanks
giammy

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IchBin - 06 Dec 2005 09:23 GMT

> hi all,
>
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> thanks
> giammy

java.util.Properties

http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util/Props.html
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util/GetSetProps.html

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IchBin - 06 Dec 2005 09:32 GMT

>> hi all,
>>
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> http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util/Props.html
> http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util/GetSetProps.html

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html

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amitkch@gmail.com - 06 Dec 2005 10:30 GMT

XML is one of the most popular way of storing configuration information
and the files can be parsed using JDOM (www.jdom.org) or any other XML
parser.

Amit :-)

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Hiran Chaudhuri - 06 Dec 2005 21:40 GMT

> XML is one of the most popular way of storing configuration information
> and the files can be parsed using JDOM (www.jdom.org) or any other XML
> parser.

What's wrong with Properties?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#loadFromXML(ja
va.io.InputStream)

Hiran

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IchBin - 06 Dec 2005 22:52 GMT

>> XML is one of the most popular way of storing configuration information
>> and the files can be parsed using JDOM (www.jdom.org) or any other XML
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> Hiran

I suggested java.util.Properties this early this morning.

Stephane had suggested java.util.prefs.Preferences

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/preferences/

This seems to use the registry for windows. I have never used it. I want
to look closer at this for myself.

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 07 Dec 2005 08:56 GMT

> XML is one of the most popular way of storing configuration information
> and the files can be parsed using JDOM (www.jdom.org) or any other XML
> parser.

XML is almost the most stupid format for simple configuration data. Non
intuitive, difficult to edit by hand without a special XML editor, wordy
syntax which is easy to type wrong, difficult to parse ("visually" by a
human when looking for errors, and also by a machine and by
line-oriented text processing tools), etc.

And the only advantage of XML, to be - at least in theory - shareable
between applications who have never heard about each other before,
doesn't apply here.

/Thomas

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Viator - 07 Dec 2005 09:52 GMT

Most stupid things are often more popular and simple. Although,
properties and prefs are not that bad at all if you have only Java in
your mind.

Amit :-)

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Stephane - 06 Dec 2005 12:05 GMT

giangiammy@gmail.com a écrit :

> hi all,
>
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> thanks
> giammy

java.util.prefs.Preferences

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/preferences/

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Malte - 06 Dec 2005 15:02 GMT

> hi all,
>
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> thanks
> giammy

web.xml if it is a web app.

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Roedy Green - 06 Dec 2005 20:49 GMT

On 6 Dec 2005 01:16:00 -0800, "giangiammy@gmail.com"
<giangiammy@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>I need to read some simple configuration parameters in my program.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/properties.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/preferences.html

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