Java Web applications especially must be written with the global marketplace in mind, ... As a result it can be difficult to read and maintain properties files especially for far eastern languages.

You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property. You use these properties to determine the different types of XML nodes you have in your folder.

The following application.properties file configures all of the same properties as the application.yaml file above, although most people would find the YAML file above easier to read: server.port= ...