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Are you habit to have some configuration files packaged inside the jar of your application? If so, you can still have a look at those configuration files in the running environment using the unzip Unix utility. $ unzip -p /opt/myapp/lib/my-app.jar log4j.properties log4j.rootLogger=INFO,stdout log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.stdout.Threshold=INFO log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd-MMM hh:mm} [%-5p] %m%n The -p option uncompress and prints [...]

I've been using some proprietary frameworks and libraries, that are using Files objects, and only File objects, everywhere in the interfaces. It's not that is bad to have methods accepting File objects, but it's not wise to accept only that. For example the DOM/SAX XML parser in the JDK, accept File object but includes also [...]