JFig looks pretty cool. I certainly don't get by with just simple .properties in real work, but I also don't find that I need very elaborate schemes requiring a separate product very often either.
The article was a simple Q&A post geared towards beginners who besiege various Java forums asking how they can figure out where their application are installed or how to load a .gif icon by its file name etc. My simple answer is: in many cases just jar it together with the app classes and load via getResourceAsStream().
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