Basic configuration infrastructure available

monitor/src/main/java/bisq/monitor/Monitor.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import bisq.monitor.metric.Metric;
  */
 public class Monitor {
 
-    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         new Monitor().start();
     }
 
@@ -43,11 +43,14 @@ public class Monitor {
     /**
      * Starts up all configured Metrics.
      * 
-     * @throws InterruptedException
+     * @throws Exception
      */
-    private void start() throws InterruptedException {
+    private void start() throws Exception {
+        Properties properties = new Properties();
+        properties.load(this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("metrics.properties"));
+
         // assemble Metrics
-        metrics.add(new Dummy(new Properties()));
+        metrics.add(new Dummy(properties));
 
         // fire up all Metrics
         for (Metric current : metrics)

monitor/src/main/java/bisq/monitor/metric/Dummy.java

@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ import java.util.Properties;
  */
 public class Dummy extends Metric {
 
-    public Dummy(Properties properties) {
+    public Dummy(final Properties properties) {
         super(properties);
+
+        System.out.println(this.configuration.toString());
     }
 
     @Override

monitor/src/main/java/bisq/monitor/metric/Metric.java

@@ -27,11 +27,26 @@ import java.util.Properties;
 public abstract class Metric extends Thread {
 
     private volatile boolean shutdown = false;
+    protected Properties properties;
 
-    public Metric(Properties properties) {
+    /**
+     * The properties of this very {@link Metric}
+     */
+    protected Properties configuration;
+
+    protected Metric(final Properties properties) {
         // set as daemon, so that the jvm does not terminate the thread
         setDaemon(true);
-        configure(properties);
+
+        // only configure the Properties which belong to us
+        final Properties myProperties = new Properties();
+        properties.forEach((k, v) -> {
+            String key = (String) k;
+            if (key.startsWith(this.getClass().getSimpleName()))
+                myProperties.put(key.substring(key.indexOf(".") + 1), v);
+        });
+        configure(myProperties);
+
         super.setName(this.getClass().getSimpleName());
     }
 
@@ -41,7 +56,7 @@ public abstract class Metric extends Thread {
      * @param properties
      */
     public void configure(Properties properties) {
-
+        this.properties = properties;
     }
 
     @Override

monitor/src/main/resources/metrics.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Dummy Metric
+Dummy.setup.message=Dummy is here
+Dummy.run.interval=5
+
+#Another Metric
+Another.run.interval=5