Thanks, Mike, I have added your email to the Jira issue:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3385

Mike Pumphrey wrote:
> Well, in the meantime, I've committed a basic page about the Properties data 
> store.  Please expand on this when you have the time.  Then no one will have 
> any excuse for being confused.  :)
> 
> http://docs.geoserver.org/trunk/en/user/data/properties.html
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike Pumphrey
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> 
> 
> Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>> I would very much like to see the property data store retained in its 
>> current form. In addition to being exceptionally useful for pedagogical 
>> purposes, I can imagine intermediate-level users adding a one-point or 
>> two-point layer with some markers to a map, some bit of static data that 
>> is not handy in a database but they would like to serve to improve their 
>> maps. I can imagine little python scripts creating property files. Sure 
>> these things can grow to inefficient proportions, but just because a 
>> tool can be misused does not mean we should take it away.
>>
>> It should be documented. We have made a lot of use of property file data 
>> stores, so I am in a position to document them. If you agree to keep it 
>> I will document it.
>>
> 


-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia

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