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 ...

Developers like to code. They declare variables, write methods and integrate classes together. What developers aren't big on is configuration. It's a hassle to configure an application so that it can ...

Traditional Java applications capture runtime variables in property files, then package them into individual JARs for various software environments. But for users of Maven, it could make better sense ...