Java .properties files as strongly typed classes

Question

Is there way to get properties files as strongly typed classes? I guess there are code generators but doing it with annotations would be much cooler.

What I mean is;

Answer 1

There is a somewhat similar project for doing configuration as statically typed files. It requires to declare an interface, but it fills in the implementation itself:

public interface AppConfig extends Config {
    long getTimeout ();
    URL getURL ();
    Class getHandlerClass ();
}