Properties files

Java™ properties files define attributes that allow customizing and control of the Java software.

Standard system properties files and custom properties files are used to configure user preferences and user customization. A Java properties file defines the values of named resources that can specify program options such as database access information, environment settings, and special features and functions.

A properties file defines named resources with a property key and value pair format.

The property-key-name is an identifier for the resource. The value is usually the name of the actual Java object that provides the resource, or a String representing the value of the property key, such as database.name=itimdb. The statement syntax allows spaces before and after the equal (=) sign, and can span multiple lines if you place a line continuation character \ (a backslash) at the end of the line. For more information about statement syntax, see Java language references.

IBM Security Identity Manager uses a number of properties files to control the program and to allow user customization of special features..

Parent topic: Supplemental property files