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| 1 | === [[User-Specific Properties Files]] === | ||
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| 3 | You can have any number of **Properties.username** files in your project's Resources directory in-addition-to the default **Properties** file. These Properties.username files will automatically load based on which user is launching the application. This allows you to have custom logging, email, database, etc configuration settings for each developer. | ||
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| 5 | This capability can also be (ab)used in combinination with the Launch parameter **-Duser.name** to specify Production vs Staging/Development properties. For example: a launch parameter of **-Duser.name=deployment** will cause **Properties.deployment** to be read when the application in launched. | ||
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| 7 | This can be very useful for automatically changing database connection configurations based on whether or not an application is being run in Production or Development. |