Properties Panel (desperately needed)

Question

can anyone build a panel for photoshop like the fireworks property panel, or that makes the live shape properties in photoshop permanent and apply to any element. Being able to have a panel to control the size of an element or object, as well as its position of an element is a huge hole in photoshop that never seems to get fixed.

Answer 1

You mean you want a mapping between each directory and a class that will handle the new data?
I would recommend that your "new file listener" peruses the upload directory looking for new files regularly and, when it finds one, calculates the directory it is in:
eg, c:/ftp/dir1/myfile.xml gives dir1
You can then use a Map to retrieve the class that should process this file.
public interface ContentHandler
  public void handle(File file) throws ContentException;
public class ContentHandlerManager
  private Map contentHandlerMap;
  public ContentHandlerManager() throws Exception
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    InputStream in = null;
    try
      in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("content-handler-manager.properties");
      properties.load(in);
    finally
      in.close();
    for(Enumeration e = properties.propertyNames(); e.hasMoreElements(); )
      String dir = (String)e.nextElement();
      String className = properties.getProperty(dir);
      ContentHandler contentHandler = (ContentHandler)Class.forName(className).newInstance();
      contentHandlerMap.put(dir, contentHandler);
  public ContentHandler getContentHandler(String directory)
    return (ContentHandler)contentHandlerMap.get(directory);
}content-handler-manager.properties:
# mapping from directory name to class name
dir1=com.me.content.ContentHandler1
dir2=com.me.content.ContentHandler2Hopefully some of this is clear.