Re: [Pki-devel] CLI for editing profiles

> I don't know the history either, but the SimpleProperties allows you to > specify the default values of some properties so what you get is the > effective values. This might be useful for the server because the server > works using the effective property values, but I'm not sure if the current > code is actually using it. On the client side we should be dealing with the > configured properties only. > > There are probably some other differences such as adding a header on the top > of the file and the property value encoding. I don't think we need it on the > client side though. Also note that some of these codes are quite old, and > newer/better utility classes might have been added into the standard/common > Java libraries since then, so in some cases it might be better to replace it > if possible. Usually the hard part is testing it to make sure we're not > breaking the existing functionality. > `Properties' has both default values and header comments, FWIW. Anyhow I'll leave the refactor for now and file a ticket, and proceed with Properties for the client-side.