<i>In terms of particular configuration sources, nearly everything should be configurable from properties passed in as a properties file. Are there exceptions to this rule?</i><p>SUTime is documented to accept a property to a file that is read to obtain other properties. Quote:<p><i>sutime.rules = [path to rules file]</i>[1]<p>I&#x27;m unclear if that works - looking at our code it appears the properties files need to be in the classpath under a <i>package</i> that is defined by the <i>sutime.rules</i> property.<p>I don&#x27;t remember how other packages worked.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.stanford.edu&#x2F;software&#x2F;sutime.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.stanford.edu&#x2F;software&#x2F;sutime.shtml</a>