David Bismut is a third-year student at the Ecole des Mines in Nantes (EMN), a French engineering school. He specializes in information management technologies. He was part of InStep, Infosys's global internship program in 2004.
Property files are frequently used in systems built using Java whether it's a
thick Java client, a servlet, or a business component. Java specifies the
format for a property file and provides the Properties class to read from and
write to these files. However, Java is silent on the aspects related to
validations of a value entered in a property file, providing room for errors
to creep into an application system. How many times have you started to debug
a failure in an application only to realize that it's because of an incorrect
value in a property file?
The Properties Editor Framework detailed in this article was developed to
solve the problem of managing application properties. It provides a
convenient way to define a data type for each property and have a companion
component in Swing to edit the property value. The framework can be used as a
standalone tool or a... (more)
David Bismut is a third-year student at the Ecole des Mines in Nantes (EMN), a French engineering school. He specializes in information management technologies. He was part of InStep, Infosys's global internship program in 2004.
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