Working, yes. But it is only a prototype and not fully implemented.
I'm no guru - like the question above has not already made that clear... I like to do things the best way possible. When the majority go one way and I go the other, I want to be sure what I am doing is ok.
I question myself on this because through all my research everybody said to use a property file. That seemed like a pain. My personal dev box is windows, but the
test server is Linux; prod is solaris... You have to change the property file for each environment. Ouch!
So why is it that everybody else is doing that instead of using a jar file when the jar file appears to be more independant of the OS, easier to deploy, and easier to maintain?
Is it a bad design to put the XSL templates in a jar file? Am I missing something really big - something that will bite me later for doing it this way?
Is anybody else doing using a jar file for things like this?