[CONFIGURATION-512] Add support for immutable configurations

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Oliver Heger
• Created: 04/Nov/12 19:48
• Updated: 24/Mar/16 20:20
• Resolved: 07/Nov/12 21:16

Description

The Configuration interface allows manipulating configuration objects. There are use cases in which it is not necessary or even forbidden to change the content of a Configuration. To support such use cases, a new interface ImmutableConfiguration should be introduced which allows only querying of configuration data. In addition, it should be possible to transform a mutable configuration into an immutable one.