Java Properties

I discovered the java.util.Properties class a couple weeks ago in the ginormous Java API docs. If you’ve ever created a software project where you have a lot of different settings that change frequently, this is the class for you. In my research, I implement all these different algorithms for various things, find out they don’t work, implement something else, rinse, repeat. Being able to look back at my results from two months ago and then loading the exact same configuration and running the experiment all over again is a must. Enter the Properties class.