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

If you want to do it statically, its a code generation problem that may be solved quite easily (for each item in file, produce a new getXXX method).

But if you want this at runtime, then you have the problem of having your code referencing method that did not exists at compile time; I don't think it can be done.

(Note that if you are looking for a project idead, the reverse, having an interface with accessor method and annotation, and an implementation generated at runtime, that relies on the annotated methods, can be done.)