4gl Properties
A 4gl interface to a java properties file.
One issue with Informix/Genero BDL was the lack of a properties module that allowed you to update settings without recompiling.
Because of this, I’ve developed a properties module that provides methods to load settings from an XML schema. The XML schema is based upon the Java properties file XML specification.
The module can be initialized with a load_xml_file function that will read the settings from the properties file. Once loaded, the data can be read from a dictionary data structure.