using Velocity to externalize configuration properties ?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/31/13 6:03 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>> Seems potentially heavyweight but maybe. What would be the inputs to the
>> template to perform the replacement? A properties file?
>
>Yes, Velocity seems heavyweight, but I think the idea is to be
>consistent with the templates.
>
>Input would be one or more properties files, yes.

It would be easy to do, and allow for a lot of customization. I sort of
forgot that Spring does the actual XML parsing here, which is something
I'd love to change, but probably isn't possible.

-- Scott