Config4J - A Configuration Framework / News: Recent posts

Hi folks,

As always a lot of changes have been made this time. Unfortunatly, we even had to change some interfaces. So that developers which do already use Config4J as configuration library may need to change some code in order to make their application work with the newer version.

With Config4J version 0.4 we want to introduce our new homepage at http://config4j.sourceforge.net! This is due to the fact that some friends asked us what Config4J actually does, why it is so useful, and what it is capable of. All these questions and much more is explained there in its very detail. Tutorials help to easily get in touch with our configuration framework.... read more

Hey folks,

It seems that there are some people already interested in Config4J. Well, I am using Config4J in my own projects, too. Thats the only source of new features I can provide so far. But I want to make Config4J grow. Thats why I need your help. Use the tracker to write some feature requests or track some bugs whenever you encounter some.

* BugFixes
* Downgrade to Java 1.5
* Categories of settings supported
* TreeView if there are more than one categories
* ColorChooser
* better TestConfig4J.java
* Sources included

Major changes are done in the gui but also within the concept. Categories can be defined and if there are more than one you can see a automatic generated treeView on the left side.

Following are the changes in short:
* Added Categories
* Added adaptable TreeView when there are more than one categories
* Added the concept of SettingsEntries which interpretes different types in a different way
** SettingsEntryFactory generates them
* Added concept of SettingsReader
** First implementation properties-Files
** Missing: Databases, xml file, other proprietary configuration files

I am proud to announce the start of the Config4J framework. I am looking forward to find interested team members and see a lot of feature requests in the tracker.
This project is hopefully an enrichment for every developer struggling with the attempt to make his application easily configurable.

Major goals are:
* component oriented approach
* easy to maintain
* easy to use
* easy to integrate
* provide a lot of implicit features (adaptable gui generated from content provided by the developers application)
* hide complexity of configuration framework behind the Config4J facade
* apply design patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns)... read more