On Jan 12, 2005, at 09:13, KR Kumar wrote:

> Is it better to use a Constants java class and declare all the
> constants
> or use a key value pair properties file backed by a Properties class?

Why not both? You could declare a constant which takes its value from a
property file.

Talking of properties, perhaps I could interest you in PL:

http://alt.textdrive.com/pl/

It provides a simple text format to handle basic things like Map and
Collection:

http://alt.textdrive.com/pl/3/pl-the-format
http://alt.textdrive.com/assets/public/PL-ABNF.txt

As well as a drop-in replacement for java.util.Properties:

http://alt.textdrive.com/download/6/pl-the-download

Cheers

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PA
http://alt.textdrive.com/

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