What can Apron be used for

Some examples for usage scenarios of Apron are:

• Using .properties files as config files for an application that may be manually edited by a user as well as modified by the application itself (e.g. via a configuration dialog). The manual modifications (like the order of entries, as well as comments, empty lines and even the formatting of entries) will remain.

• Exporting and importing Java i18n resource bundles for translation (like Kilt does).

• Reordering multiple .properties files to contain their entries in the same order.

• Reformatting .properties files to conform to a specific format.