* Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011109 19:45]: > INI... Shudder. :) Actually INIs are reasonable. I prefer calling > them property files (in terms of mapping to an API for also reading > those files and getting the same basic instinct out of them.
Using 'property' might confuse people with the Java properties stuff, but you're right that using INI tends to tie them to initialization rather than general onfiguration. > That's interesting. Not that I am on a particular XML vs Perl kick > but are comments also part of typical XML structures? I thought they > were ignored when reading them. Got me :-) One thing that might be interesting to look at is the modified Java preferenes (vs. properties) API that will be in J2SE 1.4. onjava.com has a pretty decent article about this: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/synd/2001/10/17/j2se.html Chris -- Chris Winters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.
