Spring/Hibernate Training 3

A simpler way to define properties

The spirng xml context files are, well, xml, so they can be verbose at times. One of the worst offenders is for defining properties:

<properties name="myProperties">
  <props>
    <prop key="myFirstKey">myFirstValue</prop>
    <prop key="mySecondKey">mySecondValue</prop>
  </props>
</properties>

The same properties can be expressed as this:

<properties name="myProperties">
  <value>
    myFirstKey=myFirstValue
    mySecondKey=mySecondValue
  </value>
</properties>

That's much better, isn't it?