Java Projects - Second Edition

Polyglot configuration

Usually, we turn toward polyglot programming when we want to create an application that is more flexible and configurable. Applications that get installed in many instances, usually, at different customer sites, have some configurations. These configurations can be XML files, properties files, and INI files (those come from Windows). As the programs develop, these static-configuration possibilities reach their limits. Application developers soon see that they need to configure a functionality that is cumbersome to describe using these technologies. Configuration files start getting larger and the code that reads and interprets the configuration files grows to be too large. Good developers have to realize that this is ...