This is about the ability to include external configuration files or configuration sources within the JPPF configuration initially specified for a client, server or node.

For instance we could have the following syntax:

• #!include file /home/user/config/myConfig.property
• #!include url http://www.myserver.com/config/myproperties
• #!include class myPackage.MyConfigurationSource

The last syntax refers to a class implementing JPPFConfiguration.ConfigurationSource

For convenience, we could also propose to have a configuration source which provides a Reader instead of an InputStream, such as:

public interface ConfigurationSourceReader {
  Reader getPropertyReader() throws IOException;
}