com.germinus.easyconf
Class ConfReader

java.lang.Object
  com.germinus.easyconf.ConfReader

public class ConfReader

extends java.lang.Object

Main class to obtain the configuration of a software component. The main method is getConfiguration which must be given the name of a component.

Author:

jferrer@germinus.com

Method Summary

static ComponentConfiguration	getConfiguration(java.lang.String componentName) Get the full configuration of the given component.
static void	refreshAll() Refresh the configuration of all components KNOWN BUG: this method does not refresh the properties configuration because the underlying library Jakarta Commons Configuration also contains a cache which is not refreshable.
static void	refreshComponent(java.lang.String componentName) Refresh the configuration of the given component KNOWN BUG: this method does not refresh the properties configuration because the underlying library Jakarta Commons Configuration also contains a cache which is not refreshable.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getConfiguration

public static ComponentConfiguration getConfiguration(java.lang.String componentName)

Get the full configuration of the given component. The configuration will be cached so that next calls will not need to reload the properties or XML files again.

Parameters:

componentName - any String which can be used to identified a configuration component.

Returns:

a ComponentConf instance

refreshComponent

public static void refreshComponent(java.lang.String componentName)

Refresh the configuration of the given component KNOWN BUG: this method does not refresh the properties configuration because the underlying library Jakarta Commons Configuration also contains a cache which is not refreshable. This issue is scheduled to be solved after version 1.0 of such library.

refreshAll

public static void refreshAll()

Refresh the configuration of all components KNOWN BUG: this method does not refresh the properties configuration because the underlying library Jakarta Commons Configuration also contains a cache which is not refreshable. This issue is scheduled to be solved after version 1.0 of such library.