The goal of jconfig is to provide a simple to use ConfigurationManager that works with a XML structure. This version can read the configuration either from a file or get it from an URL. The second option gives you the ability to store your configuration on a different server (maybe one machine that has all the configurations for your system world wide). It can also be used as a fallback scenario so in a case that a configuration file is missing you can download it and then save it to a file. jConfig also supports reading Java properties files so that you can convert your existing properties files into XML files. In general jConfig supports a hierarchical structure to store the properties. All properties can be grouped into categories. There is one default category called “general”.