Question

I have a series of application properties which all have different types.

The types could include, booleans, dates, timestamps, or strings.

I need to be able to provide the ability for administrative users to change these properties and have the system to remember / persist them to a file.

I am looking for a best practice way to store these application properties and be able to persist them on change and load them on start up.

Answer 1

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Java has a facility built specifically for this purpose – Properties.
Here is very good article about it

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/properties.html