Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

This describes the Eclipse-based editor support for editing Spring Boot properties files in either .properties or .yml format. Note that similar support is also provided for vscode and atom. For ...

Spring Boot's (impressively!) flexible externalization of properties, with multiple property sources, can raise questions such as, "Did the application merge the properties from the multiple sources ...