Based on this DTD, we could write a compatible XML-based properties file by hand, but an even easier way to see one is to read in a traditional properties file of name/value pairs and store it ...

Splitting the XML file is a nasty performance optimization that should wait until it is the last option AND it is proven to actually increase performance. A spike to test it out is valuable here.

Creating metadata in XML Modeler makes it easy to manage application components by combining the flexibility of model MBeans with the ease of writing XML configuration information about modeled ...

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...