Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Approaches to managing application configuration (08 Sep 2004) To customize applications and program products for a specific operational environment, you must modify one or more configuration objects. These configuration objects can take many forms, such as text files, XML files, system registries, or a separate service. Managing the operational environment becomes more complex as the number of configuration objects increases. I continue the Quality busters series, which looks at common influences on application quality from the enterprise view of the operational environment and non-functional requirements. Addressing these influences is a matter of making tradeoffs, with no single solution solving all the problems. This month I'll discuss the complexities of application configuration management. Article URL: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-qualbust3.html Read 201 more articles from IBM sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Community in the Digital Age     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy