Now that we know what we will be doing and what libraries we will be relying on, it's time to write some code. It is logical to start with things that don't have other internal dependencies.
One of these things is the application configuration. It is something that doesn't depend on anything, but many things depend on it. We decided to use the .conf files because they are simple, hierarchical, and similar to JSON. An example configuration file looks like the following code:
job-scheduler { config-path="/etc/scheduler/conf.d" config-extension="json" workers=4 db { connection-string="jdbc:h2:mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1" username="" password="" }}
The options are clear and anyone can easily provide a new config that suits their ...
