Tagged property files for system configurations

1 . A method comprising:

receiving a property file for a configuration, the file including a set of properties, each property having a tag to hold an attribute regarding the property;

accessing a tag to obtain an attribute; and

resolving a value of an element of the configuration, the resolution of the value being based at least in part on the attribute.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating a property sheet from the property file, the property sheet being based on the imported property file.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the property sheet is imported into a configuration manager.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the configuration engine solves the value of the element.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the attribute is a default value for the configuration element.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the attribute is a description of the property.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the attribute comprises one or more selected from the group comprising of flags, value type, and range.

8 . A server comprising:

a memory to hold a property sheet including an attribute of a property, the property sheet being derived from an imported property file, the property file including a tag that stores the attribute of the property; and

a resolving engine to receive the property file and to resolve an element of a configuration for a system based at least in part on the property file, the resolving engine to interpret the property file at least in part based on the attribute of the property.

9 . The server of claim 8 , wherein the server comprises a Java environment.

10 . The server of claim 8 , wherein the resolving engine obtains a default value for the configuration element from the attribute.

11 . A machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing sequences of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

importing a tagged property file for a configuration into a property sheet, the property file including a property of the configuration, a tag to hold a meta attribute regarding the property;

accessing the property in the property sheets to obtain the meta attribute; and

resolving a value of an element of the configuration, the resolution of the value being based at least in part on the meta attribute.

12 . The medium of claims 11 , wherein the property in the property sheet is accessed during runtime.

13 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein the attribute includes a default value for the configuration element.

14 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein the attribute includes a description of the property.

15 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein the attribute includes a description of the property.

16 . The medium of claim 15 , wherein the attribute comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of flags, value type, and range.