Hi,
after the 1.1 release has been out for a while it's time to think about our next steps.
First there are some bug reports related to the FileConfigurations. I think it would be good to fix these issues quickly. I already started to work on some of them. Maybe we could think about cutting a maintainance release (1.1.1) after that, but I am not sure whether these bugs are critical enough.
Then there are some points I am personally interested in and would like to know the opinions of others about (in random order):
- Rewriting ConfigurationFactory to use XMLConfiguration for loading instead of digester. This could be accompanied with some refactoring of ConfigurationFactory and CompositeConfiguration and implementation of additional features (e.g. to realize pluggable configuration sources).
- Introducing Locators for file based configurations instead of base path/file name stuff. IMO this is the only way of making loading and saving consistent and flexible.
- Adding XPath support, at first for hierarchical configurations and maybe later for all. This feature is requested again and again and would indeed be very useful.
- Improve the interpolation facilities to support other data types than String.
What do you think?
Oliver
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