Properties are used in many Java applications as a simple way of separating parts that are likely to change, from the parts that are not that likely to change. Consider for example this typical bean definition in a Spring configuration file: <bean id="traditionalPersonDao" class="org.springframework.ldap.samples.article.dao.TraditionalPersonDaoImpl"> <property name="url" value="ldap://localhost:3901" /> <property name="base" value="dc=jayway,dc=se" /> <property name="userDn" [...]
