maintaining application resources

Gerard

We created a website built in java. Application code (not the source code, just the jar files) and content is maintained in TeamSite.

The java apps use a big ApplicationResources.properties file, listing e.g. error message, helptext, etc. Some of the items in there should be managed by a content management department.

How would one facilitate that?
The app resource file is just hundreds of lines with key=value pairs. So it's hard to maintain by a casual contributor.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

james1

You could easily use Templating to present your users with a friendlier UI for changing properties. If your hundreds of properties are too much for one template, then you could break it up into smaller templates (assuming that there would be logical divisions of properties). Then, you could use presentation templates to generate your .properties file.

That's just one idea.

-- James

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James H Koh
Interwoven Engineering