What does “externalising a url” mean?
(with respect to web application programming.)
What does externalising a url mean? (with respect to web application programming.)
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What does “externalising a url” mean?
(with respect to web application programming.)
Usually, if you change things in your code, you have to compile, test, and deploy before you can see the changes. To externalize is to put this information in a place where it can be changed without recompiling and reinstalling (sometimes without restarting the server/application).
Typically, you make a text file or xml somewhere and read that file in your code. Whenever I do this, I write a service to do it for me. That way, the same service can be reused by other parts of the application.