When developing Java Enterprise (JEE) applications property files are widely used. Even in medium projects soon you have at least half a dozen of these property files. So deploying (see and please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_deployment) such a software is a sophisticated step in software devlopment. Now a productive version is usually only one of several instances to establish.
Especially when using agile development methods like scrum setups for feature testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing,... are necessary. Therefore your half dozen property files multiply with the number of setups (or environments). And that means you waste a lot of time and panic to find that forgotten property needed for that feature that has to be tested till yesterday the latest...
So this is the motivation for developing a tool like propCom. First step is developing a java command line tool that can be used to quick check if a given list of property files have the same key sets. As this is not that useful (I know Java on CLI will never match Bash or Perl) but eventual goal is an Ant/Maven integration. This way completness checks on property files can be done automatically.
Ok folks that's it for today. Next post I will show the then finished CLI version.
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