More Configuration Madness

Posted by Kerry Thu, 24 May 2007 18:09:00 GMT

The XML configuration madness continues. Serialised XML for application configuration? That can’t be good.

I guess that the development process goes like this:

  • Write config file in xml, test, change, test change.
  • Serialise file
  • Release to test environment.
  • Discover problem
  • Deserialise file, investigate.
  • Edit source xml, test, change, test, change.
  • Serialise file.
  • Rinse, repeat.

At some stage we’re all going to drown under the sea of xml configuration files piling up all around us.