Configuration

[Daniel Bradley]

Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> 
> This was not my intention (although it is a good idea).  My intention
> was to make the parsing of ALL configuration files possible with minimal
> effort by a human or by a configuration utility such as linuxconf.
> Right now, there are many different formats for config files, and most
> of them require different algorithms to parse through them, resulting in
> an unnecessary learning curve for each application.

Do you mean something like the Java Properties file format. These can be
automatically parsed by the Java to provide a properties class that may
be queried for particular properties.

Cheers,
Daniel.