Properties Files - Maintaining their Order

[Rachel Swailes]

I am writing to a properties file that is in sections. i.e.

[SectionName]
key.keyidentifier=value

[SecondSectionName]
another.key=value

My question is, when changing a property and writing it back to the file I can't seem to maintain this structure. The keys with values go to the top of the file and the sections go to the middle. How do I write to the file and keep the file layout the same?

Thanks,
Rachel

[Jeroen Wenting]

unlike Windows ini-files, properties files don't support sectioning.

You're better off using some other format, maybe XML.
Or name your properties different, like section.property=value