I really doubt where to store the constants according to a good programming design.
Situation ---------- Here is my situation. i have an email address and my application has an email functionality to send out the email using this email address.
Right now, this email address is used in only one place.
1. Can i store this email address in the code file where i am using? 2. Can i have one common code file to have all the constants used by the application? 3. Can i have a table called 'key_values' table which will store values in an array list format eg: Key Value ------------------------------- email_addr myname@mycomp.com sender_role admin,user,guest
please let me know which option would be good.
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While the three options you mention are all possibilities, for configuration options that rarely (if ever) change -like email addresses- I'd use a properties file, and make its contents available to all classes of an application. That could happen either through a static method in some class, or through a config object that each class has access to.
This forum is for "operating systems, applications, hardware, drivers, features, etc. General computer use stuff." I'm going to move it to one of our coding forums for you.
Like Ulf Dittmer states, best practice is to store these in a properties file for the stated scenario. They can as well be written in the sources, but that leads to snarled situations if the project becomes commercially scaled, use this on for prototyping.
1. Can i store this email address in the code file where i am using? Yes for protoyping only.
2. Can i have one common code file to have all the constants used by the application?
That is a properties file.
3. Can i have a table called 'key_values' table which will store
Yes, but where do you store the <K,V> between invocations of the program ?
values in an array list formatting: Key Value
That is a Map, not a List. [ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Nicholas Jordan ]
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as others have said, for small scale, protoypes, etc. it doesn't matter.
Once you get serious, the usual pattern is to put serious constants in a property file. When (not if) you find you have lots of properties, you put the real properties in a database table in a suitable database, and put the pointers to the database (i.e. the database, connection url, etc.) in a properties file.
Read the properties, find the database, use JDBC to talk to it, get the real values.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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