Guice and general application configuration

Question

For a monitoring software written in Java I consider using Google Guice as DI provider. The project needs to load its configuration from an external resource (file or database).

Answer 1

Check the governator library:

https://github.com/Netflix/governator/wiki/Configuration-Mapping

You will get a @Configuration annotation and several configuration providers. In code it helps to see where is You configuration parameters used:

@Configuration("configs.qty.things")
private int   numberOfThings = 10;

Also, You will get a nice configuration report on startup:

https://github.com/Netflix/governator/wiki/Configuration-Mapping#configuration-documentation