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On 11/26/2011 3:31 PM, Davej wrote:

> I thought I was being concise by not repeating myself, and I thought
> the general purpose of *.ini files was pretty well understood by
> everyone. I just want to save a few user settings: a few booleans and
> a few strings. I am nervous about the idea of writing to the registry.


As mentioned, Java Preferences seem to be the answer you are looking 
for.  Java doesn't particularly use ini files.  I don't know why you 
keep bringing them up.