Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

While the Struts framework has been widely deployed, there’s no doubt that its original version held room for improvement. The newly released Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...