knightliao/disconf

Disconf is a distributed configuration management platform written in Java. It was built to solve a common problem in large software systems: when you run the same application across multiple environments, such as development, testing, and production, managing different configuration files for each environment becomes messy and error-prone. Disconf provides a central place to store and manage all those configurations, so one application package can be deployed anywhere without manually editing config files. One of its key features is live configuration updates. When you change a setting in the Disconf web interface, the running applications that use that configuration detect the change automatically and apply it without needing a restart or a redeployment. This is useful for large teams where restarting services to push a config change would cause downtime. The platform supports two ways to connect your Java code to it: using annotations, where you add a few markers directly to your code, or using XML configuration files with no code changes at all. This gives developers a choice between tighter integration or a fully hands-off approach. Disconf also includes a compatibility fallback: if the central configuration server is unavailable, the application falls back to its local configuration files automatically. The README is primarily in Chinese and describes notable users including Baidu (with over 20 product lines on the platform), Didi (the ride-hailing service), UnionPay, NetEase, and several other major Chinese internet companies. It ranked 16th in a 2015 top-100 new open-source projects list published by the Chinese open-source community OSChina. If you are a non-technical reader: think of this as a control panel that your software applications phone home to whenever they start up, asking for their current settings. Instead of baking the settings into each copy of the software, the settings live in one place that authorized people can update at any time, and the software picks up those changes without anyone flipping switches on the servers directly.