Create Simple Configuraiton Beans using JSON
The more I use JSON, the more enamoured I am with the simplicity of the format. For configuration settings, JSON can easily be decoded into structures used to populate simple configuration beans. While updating a legacy application to a service oriented, framework driven implementation, I found the need to access default settings in different contexts. In the legacy app, these defaults were set in many list templates to both pre-populate a form and filter a query. My first inclination was to use Mach-II properties to store the config settings, but with many different pages all having some default params, that would become unwieldy. In order to provide access to the default values in both a view and a Mach-II listener, I decided to build a "ConfigurationService" that would serve up event-focused simple configuration beans from a JSON configuration file.
