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What could be simpler than property files? In an enterprise application, it turns out, many things! In this post I’ll take a look at a few subtle complexities to managing properties in an enterprise Java Spring application, and hopefully demonstrate how a little fore-thought in design can yield big savings in terms of time, confusion, bugs, and gray hair down the road.

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So how do we manage this communication chasm? We all agree that having some software tools is good for the business. We all agree that there is a cost to develop custom software. But as we go deeper, we don’t understand much. The developers don’t understand the business domain and the business folks don’t understand the software domain. One way to look at this is by observing the growth in the number of details over the course of development.

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