Eat Sleep and Code

I just spend the last several hours figuring out why my application won't talk to a couple of external services that I'm integrating with. For future reference, when using java.util.Properties,

key=value

behaves as expected (storing value into props.getProperty("key"))), while

key="value"

wraps the values in quotes, which is not at all what I wanted. I only caught this because I was noticing spurious quotes in my debug logs :)

I'm now off to recapture the time lost figuring this out.