What is a good method of persisting application properties?

Question

I have a series of application properties which all have different types.

The types could include, booleans, dates, timestamps, or strings.

I need to be abl

Answer 1

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Java has a facility built specifically for this purpose - Properties. Here is very good article about it

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/properties.html