smartics-properties-core 0.4.0-SNAPSHOT API

Provides classes to declare properties.

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Description

Packages

de.smartics.properties.api.core.app	Provides classes on the domain level.
de.smartics.properties.api.core.config	Provides access to the libraries configuration.
de.smartics.properties.api.core.context.alias	Provides helper classes to manage different aliases to the same physical resources.
de.smartics.properties.api.core.domain	Provides property domain objects and exceptions.
de.smartics.properties.api.core.security	Provides security mechanisms to protect property values.
de.smartics.properties.core.services	Provides infrastructure to create services.
de.smartics.properties.core.util	Utilities to be moved.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.classpath	Provides utilities to collect properties information from the class path.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.config	Provides configuration helpers.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.constraint	Provides information about property values constraints.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.constraint.jsr303	Provides wrappers to use JSR-303 constraints for property validation.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.constraints	Provides standard constraints.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.context	Provides properties configuration information.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.convert	Provides utilities to convert property values from and to Strings.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.metadata	Provides helpers to read metadata from property descriptor interfaces.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.metadata.comment	Provides helpers to read comments for property sets, properties and property values.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.metadata.projectdoc	Provides helpers for projectdoc information.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.registry	Provides registries to access properties meta information.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.util	Provides utilities for service provider.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.validate	Service provider validation classes.
de.smartics.properties.spi.core.value	Provides information about property values.

Provides classes to declare properties.

Basically we differentiate between declaring and defining properties.

1. By declaring a property, the property is given a name, a type, a default expression and additional meta data. By declaring property one only states that such a property exists in the domain, but there is no property value associated with the property name.
2. By defining a property this association of a value to a name is done. For instance this can be accomplished by adding a properties file to the class path that maps property names to their values.

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Means for defining properties are provided by the smartics-properties-config project.