23.5. Application Configuration
Many applications rely on external static settings that they read before they do something useful. Such settings are never hardcoded in the application itself, because doing so forces a recompilation of the application whenever a simple static setting changes.
A traditional approach is to store these static settings in a static configuration file. Java programmers are probably thinking about .properties files. A Java property file is a file containing name/value pairs that can be used at runtime by the application. JDK 1.4 introduced a more structured way of storing these settings in a class called java.util.Preferences.
The .NET Framework comes with its own arsenal of classes that allow configuration of the application. ...
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