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+Commons Configuration provides a generic configuration interface which enables
+an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources. Commons
+Configuration provides typed access to single, and multi-valued configuration
+parameters.
+
+Configuration parameters may be loaded from the following sources:
+
+ * Properties files
+ * XML documents
+ * Windows INI files
+ * Property list files (plist)
+ * JNDI
+ * JDBC Datasource
+ * System properties
+ * Applet parameters
+ * Servlet parameters
+
+Different configuration sources can be mixed using a ConfigurationFactory and
+CompositeConfiguration. Additional sources of configuration parameters can be
+created by using custom configuration objects. This customization can be
+achieved by extending AbstractConfiguration.
+
+WWW: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/