Distributed Property Files With Java

This project supports distributed property files for easy loading with Java projects.

This project is a solution to this problem:

In a J2EE environment, we are normally used to storing text in a property/resource file. And that property file is associated with some view HTML markup file. E.g. if your label 'First Name' changes to 'Full Name' on a HTML page, you could use the property to make that update.

firstName=First Name someOtherData=This is the data to display on screen, from property file

If you are in an environment, where it is difficult to update those property files on a regular basis,
what architecture are developers using to change text/label content that would normally reside in a property file? Or let's say you need to change that content before re-deploying a property file change. One solution is to store that in a database? Are developers using memcache-db? Is that usually used for caching solutions?

Would you use a solution outside of the java framework? Like a key/value datastore? memcachedb?

Author: Berlin Brown (berlin dot brown at gmail.com)

• Add property key/value data to the H2 embedded sql database
• Modify the conf/file/tmp/staging_load.properties file to add your key/value entries
• Run bin/scripts/jdistprop-readall.bat to transfer from the property file in to the database
• Run bin/jdistprop.bat to launch the jdistprop httpd web server
• At this point, you just simply need to connect to the server to read your property files.

 final Properties prop = new Properties() ;
 final URL url = new URL("https://localhost:7191/servlet/db/default");        
 prop.load(url.openStream());
 prop.getProperty("key");